INDUSTRY NEWS BMTbase™ Version 4 Released STEMSOFT Software is pleased to announce the release of BMTbase™ version 4! Completely redesigned from the ground up using .NET technology, version 4 is a browser-based application allowing for easier user access, deployment and more robust database management and security. [STEMSOFT Software Press Release] Pluristem Therapeutics Receives Data Safety Monitoring Board Approval to Advance to Final Dose Level with PLX-PAD Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. recently announced that it has received approval from an independent Data Safety Monitoring Board to advance to the highest and final dose level with its placenta-derived cell therapy product, PLX-PAD, in a Phase I dose-escalating clinical trial in Europe for the treatment of critical limb ischemia, the end-stage of peripheral artery disease. [Pluristem Therapeutics Inc. Press Release] Lifebank Becomes the First and Only Canadian Cord Blood Bank to Achieve Industry-Leading Foundation of Accreditation of Cellular Therapy Accreditation Lifebank Corp. announced recently that it has become the first and only cord blood bank in Canada to earn the industry’s highest accreditation from the Foundation of Accreditation of Cellular Therapy. [Lifebank Corp. Press Release] Merck KGaA and Millipore Announce Transaction Merck KGaA and Millipore Corporation recently announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Merck KGaA will acquire all outstanding shares of common stock of Millipore, for US$107 per share in cash, or a total transaction value, including net debt, of approximately US$7.2 billion. [Merck KGaA Press Release] Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Provides $5.5 Million in Seed Money for Adult Stem Cell Research The Board of Directors of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust during its quarterly meeting approved a proposal creating a virtual research center to be known as the Oklahoma Center for Adult Stem Cell Research. [Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust Press Release] Insception Cord Blood Program Expands to Calgary Insception has opened a new office to help educate parents of the once in a lifetime opportunity of banking their child’s umbilical cord blood. [Canadian Business Online] Red Cross Blood Facility Stalled Again Another delay has set back the proposed Red Cross blood facility for University Park. [Belleville News-Democrat] StemCyte Opens Its First Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cell Bank of India StemCyte Inc. U.S.A. announced the opening of its first umbilical cord blood stem cell banking facility at Apollo Hospital in Gujarat’s Gandhinagar district. [Press Trust of India] Cord Blood America Names Shamoon Ahmad, M.D., Director of Its Medical Advisory Board Cord Blood America, Inc. announced recently it has named Shamoon Ahmad, M.D., M.B.A., FACP as Medical Director and Leader of its Medical Advisory Board. [Cord Blood America, Inc. Press Release] Cord Blood Registry Launches Industry-Leading Innovations for Newborn Stem Cell Collection Cord Blood Registry announced recently the launch of its new stem cell collection system that saves a greater number and diversity of a newborn’s stem cells – from both the blood in the umbilical cord and the cord tissue itself – for a wider range of potential therapeutic uses. [Cord Blood Registry Press Release]
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POLICY NEWS National Institutes of Health Director Goes Shopping Francis Collins, the new leader of National Institutes of Health, announced that he will spend more than $200 million out of the Common Fund over the next five years on seven programmes in areas ranging from global health to how to speed therapies to the clinic. [National Institutes of Health, United States] Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Launches 2010 Accelerator Program for Early-Stage Companies The primary objective of the Accelerator Loan Program is to provide working capital to early stage life sciences companies that still are in the process of further developing their science/technology and have not yet raised more than $5 million in equity financing. [Massachusetts Life Sciences Center, United States] Cross Organ Mechanism-Associated Phenotypes for Genetic Analyses of Heart, Lung, Blood, and Sleep Diseases (MAPGen for HLBS) Research Centers (U01) (RFA-HL-11-005) [National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, United States] Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals; Human Tissue Intended for Transplantation, 9226–9227 [FDA-2010-N-0066] [Food and Drug Administration, United States] 2009 Biological New Drug Application (NDA) and Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) Approvals – Updated [Food and Drug Administration, United States] 2009 Biological Device Application Approvals – Updated [Food and Drug Administration, United States] 2010 Biological Device Application Approvals – Updated [Food and Drug Administration, United States] Food and Drug Administration Public Health Notification: Newborn Blood Banking, Inc. [Food and Drug Administration, United States] Order to Cease Manufacturing of HCT/Ps: Newborn Blood Banking, Inc. [Food and Drug Administration, United States] Advancing Regulatory Science through Novel Research and Science-Based Technologies (U01) (RFA-RM-10-006) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Review Considerations for Applications and Awards under the New National Institutes of Health Guidelines for Human Stem Cell Research (NOT-OD-10-056) [National Institutes of Health, United States] UPDATE TO RFA-OD-10-009: OS Recovery Act Limited Competition: Methodology Development in Comparative Effectiveness Research (RC4) – Announcement of Non-Applicability of Requirement to Attend Meetings (NOT-OD-10-062) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Delays in Grant Application Submission to AHRQ due to Recent Winter Storm (NOT-HS-10-013) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Notice of Intent to Establish a New National Institutes of Health Common Fund Program: Library of Integrated Network-Based Cellular Signatures (LINCS) (NOT-RM-10-002) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral MD/PhD and Other Dual Doctoral Degree Fellows (Parent F30) (PA-10-107) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellows (Parent F31) (PA-10-108) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards for Individual Predoctoral Fellowships to Promote Diversity in Health-Related Research (Parent F31 – Diversity) (PA-10-109) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Postdoctoral Fellows (Parent F32) (PA-10-110) [National Institutes of Health, United States] Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Awards (NRSA) for Individual Senior Fellows (Parent F33) (PA-10-111) [National Institutes of Health, United States] National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Will Provide Limited Supplemental Support to the National Institute of General Medical Sciences Medical Scientist Training Program in FY 2010 (NOT-HL-11-103) [National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, United States] In Vitro Diagnostics, Blood Transfusion: Blood Grouping Analyzer – Beckman Coulter Biomedical Ltd – Olympus PK7200 Blood Grouping System [Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency, United Kingdom]
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EVENTS 36th Annual Meeting of the European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation (EBMT) March 21-24, 2010 Vienna, Austria 12th Biennial Canadian Blood and Marrow Transplant Group (CBMTG) Conference April 7-10, 2010 Vancouver, Canada American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 101st Annual Meeting 2010 April 17-21, 2010 Washington, DC, United States British Society for Haematology 50th Annual Scientific Meeting April 19-21, 2010 Edinburgh, Scotland XXIII International Symposium on Technological Innovations in Laboratory Hematology May 10-12, 2010 Brighton, United Kingdom 16th Annual International Society for Cellular Therapy (ISCT) Meeting May 23-26, 2010 Philadelphia, United States 8th Annual International Umbilical Cord Blood Transplantation Symposium June 3-5, 2010 San Francisco, United States International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 8th Annual Meeting June 16-19, 2010 San Francisco, United States Select Bioscience’s World Biobanking Summit August 24-25, 2010 Edinburgh, Scotland International Society for Hematology and Stem Cells (ISEH) 2010 Meeting September 15-18, 2010 Melbourne, Australia
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