Cartilage Regenerative Medicine at Tokai University
“Regenerative Medicine Practical Application Research Project”
(AMED for Fiscal Years Reiwa 3–5, AMED for Fiscal Years Reiwa 4–8)
has been selected.
At the 16th annual meeting of the Asian Cell Therapy Organization ACTO 2025, Professor Masato Sato gave a lecture on “ Auto- and Allo- Cartilage Cell Sheets for Osteoarthritis of the Knee “.
“Clinical study to evaluate the safety of next-generation allogeneic cartilage cell sheets (NACS) for the treatment of osteoarthritis” has been accepted by the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and is now publicly available (jRCTa030240663).
~Recruiting participants~
Dr. Yasuyuki Sugou’s paper was published on June 2, 2024, in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.
Collaborating researcher Dr. Yuji Hosono presented at the ORS 2024 Annual Meeting.
Professor Masato Sato gave a lecture entitled “Regenerative Therapy for Osteoarthritis of the Knee Using Cell Sheets” at the 14th annual meeting of ACTO.
We have started a physician-initiated clinical trial ”Physician-initiated clinical trial to evaluate the efficacy of intra-articular injection of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) for knee osteoarthritis: a multicenter, randomized, double-blind, comparative study”
~Recruiting participants~
The paper about our clinical study “A Novel Treatment for Osteoarthritis Using Discarded Cells from Other Patients’ Surgeries” has been published in npj Regenerative Medicine.