For a Future Where You Can Always Walk

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.

News

August 15, 2025

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 “.

April 29, 2025

The e-book “Regenerative Medicine in Sports and Orthopaedics” by Sato et al., entitled “Regenerative Medicine for Osteoarthritis of the Knee Using Cell Sheets“, has been published by Springer Nature.

February 5, 2025

“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~

June 2, 2024

Dr. Yasuyuki Sugou’s paper was published on June 2, 2024, in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

February 2-6, 2024.

Collaborating researcher Dr. Yuji Hosono presented at the ORS 2024 Annual Meeting.

Nov.6-8, 2023.

Professor Masato Sato gave a lecture entitled “Regenerative Therapy for Osteoarthritis of the Knee Using Cell Sheets” at the 14th annual meeting of ACTO.

July 5, 2023

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~

February 28, 2023.

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.