According to a press release on Friday, Prof Bob Elliot’s pig cell trials (Living Cell Technologies) have been awarded $4.04mil from the New Zealand government’s Foundation for Research Science & Technology. This is to be spent over two years.
So says the press release, the fourth NZ patient will receive their implants this week.
By Nic on 14 February 2010 at 6.27 pm
Posted in Science & Research
Tagged as LCT, pig cell trials, Professor Bob Elliot
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Aaron wrote
That’s awesome news!
I’m writing my letter to Tony Ryall right now petitioning for pump funding and did a quick calculation:
$4,000,000 would fund 500 pumpers at $120 per month for 5 1/2 years. Weight that against the potential for a cure and it is so hard to decided what that money is better spent on huh. I wonder what 4m get you these days for a pig cell trial?
Nic wrote
Hmmmm, it’s short vs long term innit…. the op is likely to cost $100k per person once the trials have been proven effective/safe so it seems pretty out of reach already. But I am so supportive of these people going in to bat for a cure. They’ve spent over $60mil already so one does wonder how far $4mil goes.