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Trailblazing regenerative medicine in South America

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Cells for Cells (“C4C”) was founded in 2010 as a spin-off of Universidad de los Andes (Chile) when it opened the field of regenerative medicine to patients in South America. Since then, the company has conducted eight clinical trials (>800 treated patients), published more than 120 scientific articles, and applied for 17 patent families. These results situate C4C as one of the world’s most productive global cell therapy companies. By securing nearly US$ 20 million through non-diluting governmental grants, C4C has de-risked several groundbreaking technologies at a fraction of the cost required in other countries with well-established scientific culture and support. This cost-efficient management led the company to achieve rapid clinical validation of its proprietary exosome technology platform, C4C’s most promising asset. The milestone above meant C4C’s exosome therapy for symptomatic osteoarthritis was the first of its kind in the race to the bedside, positioning C4C at the forefront of the industry.

Timeline

2005

Obtention of the INNOVA CHILE grant from the Chilean government

2006

Initiation of Chile’s first autologous cell therapy clinical trial on Heart Failure

2010

Publication of groundbreaking study on the use of expanded stem cells for the treatment of lupus

Foundation of Cells for Cells S.A.

2012

Opening of Cells for Cells labs at the Biomedicine Research & Innovation Center from Universidad de los Andes

I International Congress of Cell Therapy, organized by C4C

Beginning of the Clinical Trial Phase I/II on Allogenic Cell Therapy for Heart Failure

2013

Filing of first patents

2014

Foundation of Regenero, Chile’s first  regenerative medicine consortium, in partnership with Clínica Dávila and Universidad de los Andes

Opening of the Cell Therapy Production GMP Lab, located at Universidad de los Andes Clinic

2015

II International Congress of Cell Therapy, organized by C4C

2016

Beginning of the first Latin American Clinical Trial for Allogenic Cell Therapy for Osteoarthritis (OA) treatment

2017

C4C’s GMP Lab is the first Latin American Cell Therapy Lab to comply with ISO 9001:2015

III International Congress of Cell Therapy, organized by C4C

Publication of the first clinical trial with positive results for the treatment of heart failure in the American Heart Association (AHA) Circulation Research Journal

2018

Publication of the first clinical study in Latin America using cell therapy for the treatment of osteoarthritis

Clínica Universidad de los Andes and Cells for Cells open the first Center for Cell Therapy in Chile

2020

Cells for Cells wins 2020 Chilean National Innovation Prize (Premio Avonni) with its Veintis bioengineered vascular graft technology

2021

C4C is awarded 12828 million CLP for the creation of the first Cell Therapy Center of Excellence in the region, named Center of Interventional Medicine for Precision and Advanced Cellular Therapy (IMPACT)

2022

C4C announces at ISCT 2022 in San Francisco groundbreaking Clinical Data from the first-ever patient dosed with an exosome-produced therapy for osteoarthritis