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A personal perspective and a glimpse of the future
School of Biological Sciences, 11 March 2011
Professor R. B. Elliott on behalf of Living Cell Technologies
The Story begins - 1961
George Maxwell
Paul Lacey
1961
Transplant new cells from rats into anterior eye chamber of the eye of diabetic rabbits---failed.
Transplant rat islets inserted into a semi permeable chamber inserted under the skin of diabetic rabbits----- failed
1976
Transplant human foetal islets
intramuscularly into Type 1 diabetic
humans------ failed
1995
Transplant newborn pig islets into peritoneal cavity of humans with T1D failed
David Collinson
1996
Transplant newborn pig islets
encapsulated into semi-permeable
microcapsules
Michael Helyer - 1996
Michael Helyer - 2005
1996 – 2007
Virtual moratorium PERV
Auckland Islands
Auckland Islands, New Zealand.
• Unique source . NO xeno-relevant viruses, bacteria and parasites.
NULL PIGS (PERV).• Herd now bred in documented bio-isolation.
• Three year health records and regular monitoring. Three generations without mammalian content in feed.
• Health Monitoring. Regular testing by IANZ accredited laboratory for all of herd and all donors.
Facilities
Encapsulated Islet
Russian Patient Video
Dr. Paul Tan
NZ Study - Patient # 1 Result
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Patient #1: Asymptomatic Hypos
Week Number
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Choroid Plexus
Choroid Plexus
Dopamine containing cells
Monkey Study Results
Other Projects
• Restoring auditory nerves
• Liver cells for haemophilia
Other studies under way
• Regeneration of auditory spiral ganglion cells
• Human cells for replacement of the clotting factor V111, haemophilia
For future other possibilities
Providing biologics in excess to treat non-deficiencydiseases
Cells over expressing therapeutics
E.g. localised delivery of TNF for cancer treatmentIntestinal L cells for obesity
Living cell treatment is an exciting new frontier, which
skilled biologists need to explore.
The rewards are likely to be high.
There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a
new order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli