LUMC to Fund New Clinical Trial of Cynata

Key Highlights: Cynata to collaborate with Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands, in a new clinical trial in patients who have received a kidney transplant Trial to be funded by LUMC; Cynata will supply iPSC-derived Cymerus mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) at its cost to facilitate the trial and has full commercial rights There are approximately 130,000 kidney transplants around the world each year. Kidney transplantation is life-saving in patients with chronic renal failure and frees the patient from the need for dialysis. Currently, lifelong immune suppressive therapy is required in renal transplant patients to reduce the…