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Advanced Cell Technology Announces Completion of Higher-Dosage Cohort in Both U.S. Clinical Trials
11/28/2012 9:44:30 AM
MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. (“ACT”; OTCBB: ACTC or the “Company”), a leader in the field of regenerative medicine, today announced treatment of three additional patients in the company’s two U.S. trials using retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells derived from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). The fifth and sixth patients in the company’s Phase I/II clinical trial for dry age-related macular degeneration (dry AMD) were treated, completing the second patient cohort. The fifth patient was treated at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, by a surgical team led by Dean Eliott, M.D., a full-time retina surgeon, scientist and associate director of the Retina Service at Mass. Eye and Ear. Additionally, the sixth patient in the company’s clinical trial for Stargardt’s Macular Dystrophy (SMD) was treated, also completing that second cohort. All three patients were injected with 100,000 hESC-derived RPE cells and are recovering uneventfully.
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