May 24, 2013 - The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has granted Cellular Dynamics International (CDI) exclusive license rights to commercially develop cardiomyocyte progenitors for in vivo cell therapy and regenerative medicine applications. These cells are capable of further differentiation into the multiple cell types of the heart, including cardiomyocytes, ...
May 15, 2013 - The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai has signed an agreement with bene pharmaChem GmbH to collaborate to conduct clinical studies of pentosan polysulfate (PPS) in patients with mucopolysaccharidoses (MPS). The company, based in Germany, is the sole producer of pharmaceutical pentosan polysulfate. The announcement was made on ...
April 17, 2013 - Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have developed the first-ever gene test that could be used to identify patients with cirrhosis who are at highest risk of developing the most common type of liver cancer, hepatocelluar carcinoma (HCC). The test will also help ...
January 31, 2013 - The Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Genisphere have agreed to jointly develop a new allergy test that will quickly and effectively characterize patients’ food allergies. The peptide-bead-based test will be high-throughput, semi-automatic and accurate, surpassing the reliability of current allergy-testing methods. The partnership ...
September 13, 2012 - New research presented today at the 6th Neurodegenerative Conditions Research and Development Conference in San Francisco, California demonstrates the role of the investigational compound IRX4204 in alleviating cognitive decline in animal models of Alzheimer's disease. The presentation entitled "Investigation of the RXR-specific agonist IRX4204 as a Disease ...
