Angiocrine Bioscience Licenses New Stem Cell Technology

LONDON - Aug. 27, 2014 - PRLog -- Angiocrine Bioscience announced in a press release last week that it has licensed the rights to a new technology developed by a team of researchers at the Ansary Stem Cell Institute at Weill Cornell Medical College. This scientific advance, reported in the July 2 issue of Nature, could potentially lead to therapies for patients with blood disorders from their own cells.

“This technology nicely complements our efforts in applying our VeraVec™ platform to the expansion of umbilical cord blood stem cells, another approach toward making stem cell transplant safer and more broadly available to patients in need, ” said Geoff Davis, Angiocrine’s CEO.* Source http://www.digitaljournal.com/pr/2136364

Hear more from Angiocrine Bioscience at Advances in Cell Based Assays this autumn as Director of Research, Dr Daniel Nolan, provides further insights into the VeraVec™ platform.

The talk will discuss recent works demonstrating how the chemoresistant niche within cancer involves the vasculature, a look into how the vascular stem cell niche is capable of expanding stem cells in vitro while maintaining potency and engraftability, plus VeraVec™ amenability to 3D and co-culture assays for screening purposes.

Other Speakers Include:

- Steve Ludbrook, Group Leader, Biological Sciences UK, RD Platform Technology & Science, GSK
- Beverley Isherwood, Team Leader High Content Biology, Innovative Medicines, AstraZeneca R&D
- Dr Lesley Jenkinson, Scientist 1, MedImmune
- Dr Farnaz Fallah-Arani, Group Leader, Pharmacology, UCB
- Neil Carragher, PhD, Principal Investigator Drug Discovery, Edinburgh Cancer Research UK Centre, Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine, University of Edinburgh
- Niclas Nilsson, Head of Section, Lead Discovery, LEO Pharma
- Dr Christa Burger, Principal Scientist, Cellular Pharmacology, Merck Serono
- Dr Marianne Uteng, PhD, Head of Cellular Models & HCB Laboratory, Discovery and Investigative Safety (DIS), Novartis

For further details and to secure a place at Advances in Cell Based Assays, visit www.cellbasedassay.co.uk

7th annual conference:
Advances in Cell Based Assays
11th & 12th November 2014
Marriott Regents Park Hotel, London UK
www.cellbasedassay.co.uk

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