Pilot Study Evaluating Safety & Efficacy of DCBT: NiCord® & UNM CBU to Patients With Hematological Malignancies

Summary

Pilot Study Evaluating the Safety and Efficacy of a Co-Transplantation of NiCord®, a UCB-derived ex Vivo Expanded Population of Stem and Progenitor Cells with a Second, Unmanipulated CBU in Patients with Hematological Malignancies

Timeline

Start

2010-11

Primary completion

2012-09

Completion

2013-05

Publications

• Horwitz ME, Chao NJ, Rizzieri DA, Long GD, Sullivan KM, Gasparetto C, Chute JP, Morris A, McDonald C, Waters-Pick B, Stiff P, Wease S, Peled A, Snyder D, Cohen EG, Shoham H, Landau E, Friend E, Peleg I, Aschengrau D, Yackoubov D, Kurtzberg J, Peled T. Umbilical cord blood expansion with nicotinamide provides long-term multilineage engraftment. J Clin Invest. 2014 Jul;124(7):3121-8. doi: 10.1172/JCI74556. Epub 2014 Jun 9.
• Peled T, Shoham H, Aschengrau D, Yackoubov D, Frei G, Rosenheimer G N, Lerrer B, Cohen HY, Nagler A, Fibach E, Peled A. Nicotinamide, a SIRT1 inhibitor, inhibits differentiation and facilitates expansion of hematopoietic progenitor cells with enhanced bone marrow homing and engraftment. Exp Hematol. 2012 Apr;40(4):342-55.e1. doi: 10.1016/j.exphem.2011.12.005. Epub 2011 Dec 20.

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