International Stem Cell Corp. (ISCO) Completes Master Stem Cell Bank in Preparation for Upcoming Parkinson’s Disease Clinical Trial
Using its patented process, International Stem Cell has completed the manufacturing of its master cell bank of more than 2.6 billion clinical-grade human neural stem cells. The California biotech company says its existing master cell bank and current production scale are sufficient to meet foreseeable clinical trial requirements, including for the recently announced phase 1/2a clinical trial in Parkinson's disease. "Completing the production of clinical-grade cells using the previously published protocol is one of the final steps before starting our clinical program," Ruslan Semechkin, Ph.D., ISCO's chief scientific officer, stated in the news release. "Because of the complexity involved in…