Cell and Molecular Therapy Clinical Research Laboratory

Cell and Marrow Harvesting

The Cell and Marrow Processing Lab prepares peripheral blood and bone marrow for patients receiving either autologous or allogenic hemopoietic stem cell transplants. This often involves extensive processing and manipulation such as T-depletion or gene transfer. Many components are enriched for CD34 progenitor cells prior to further processing either with positive selection devices or cell sorting. This transplant service maintains a patient base for the implementation of the gene therapy strategies.

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The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), a part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is supporting the initiative for an Administrative Center and three facilities for the production and testing of novel somatic (biological) cell therapies. Baylor College of Medicine's Center for Cell and Gene Therapy is one of these facilities.

The NHLBI is providing funding to these facilities for the manufacture of cellular therapy products. Product requests for clinical grade products, basic research, and/or non-human use will be accepted, evaluated, and, if approved, assigned to a facility for manufacture.

For further information contact the PACT website at: www.pactgroup.org

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(Modified: September 21st, 2007 - jb)