The role of industry in advancing xenotransplantation
| Autor: | Jordan T Shin, Martine A Rothblatt, Marc I. Lorber |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Graft Rejection
Transplantation medicine.medical_specialty Tissue and Organ Procurement Graft rejection business.industry Xenotransplantation medicine.medical_treatment Transplantation Heterologous Organ Transplantation Organ transplantation Tissue Donors Animals Genetically Modified Organ Survival medicine Immunology and Allergy Animals Humans Engineering ethics Transplantation Tolerance Business Intersectoral Collaboration Pharmaceutical industry |
| Zdroj: | Current opinion in organ transplantation. 24(5) |
| ISSN: | 1531-7013 |
| Popis: | Purpose of review Xenotransplantation offers the opportunity to alleviate the imbalance between the demand of patients with end stage organ failure and the supply of organs available for transplantation but remains aspirational. This review highlights how collaboration between academia and industry are essential for success. Recent findings The science of xenotransplantation has accelerated in recent years with key discoveries in genetic engineering, enabling disruption of genes facilitating rejection, and transgenic expression of desired human genes. Combined with similar progress directed toward induction of transplant tolerance, the stage has been set for meaningful progress. These advances are reviewed in detail elsewhere in this volume and argue that the breakthroughs needed to deliver substantial cross-species organ survival have largely been achieved, heralding a liminal stage of human xenotransplantation. However, xenotransplantation as a meaningful therapy for medically refractory end organ failure will not be realized through scientific innovation alone. The advent of broadly available, therapeutic xenogeneic tissues requires extensive development and regulatory expertise; the biotechnology/pharmaceutical industry can provide extensive resources and expertise in those essential areas. Summary Successful delivery of xenotransplantation as an available therapy for curing end stage organ failure is best accomplished through partnership and collaboration between academia and industry. |
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