Pluristem Therapeutics, Inc. (PSTI) and NYU Medical Center Partner in Study of Diabetic Foot Ulcers
Today, Pluristem Therapeutics, Inc. and New York University Medical Center jointly announced that they have formed a partnership to study the use of Pluristem's proprietary placenta-derived PLX cells for the treatment of Diabetic Foot Ulcers (DFU). The pre-clinical studies are the first step towards a potential Phase II clinical study for treatment of DFU. An in vitro and a series of animal models will be used to evaluate the role PLX cells have in healing DFU. Through a novel academic-industrial collaborative research paradigm, these trials, with proposed support from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), will be used as a…