An Australian Study of Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for Crohn's Disease

Summary

Despite the advent of newer biologic therapies such as infliximab for Crohn's disease, a form of autoimmune inflammatory bowel disease, a proportion of patients are refractory to such therapy and require surgery. The hypothesis is that mesenchymal stromal cell therapy using third party human cultured cells will be safe and effective

Timeline

Start

2010-01

Primary completion

2014-06

Completion

2015-06

Publications

• Forbes GM, Sturm MJ, Leong RW, Sparrow MP, Segarajasingam D, Cummins AG, Phillips M, Herrmann RP. A phase 2 study of allogeneic mesenchymal stromal cells for luminal Crohn's disease refractory to biologic therapy. Clin Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2014 Jan;12(1):64-71. doi: 10.1016/j.cgh.2013.06.021. Epub 2013 Jul 19.

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