LCT’s DIABECELL® Registered for Sale and Use in Russia

20 December 2010
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Hi everyone – this just hot off the press from an email I just received from Living Cell Technologies, which is the company doing pig cell trials in NZ under Professor Bob Elliot. This is pretty big news! Press release dropped in verbatim, below…

Company Announcement10 December 2010 – Sydney, Australia, Auckland, New Zealand– Living Cell Technologies Limited (ASX: LCT; OTCQX: LVCLY), a global company pioneering the development of cell implants to treat diabetes, announced today that its Russian subsidiary, LCT Biomedical Limited, has received registration of the Company’s groundbreaking diabetes treatment, DIABECELL, as a marketable medical technology in Russia. Registration allows for the sale and use of the DIABECELL technology in the treatment of Type 1 diabetes…

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By Nic on 20 December 2010 at 12.51 pm
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Pig cells help hypo unawareness.

27 April 2010
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The NZ Herald had an article today about the fifth NZ patient doing Prof Elliott’s pig cell trials for T1.

Simon Bilton (pictured) had the highest dose of pig cells of these trials, and reports that he’s seen the end of his hypo unawareness, but the rest of the outcomes of the trial will be noticeable in about a month.

While I was typing this post, TV One did a piece on the 6 o’clock news…. when it comes up on OnDemand I’ll post it below.

EDIT: Here is the link to the One News item: http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/pig-cells-new-hope-diabetes-patients-2-55-video-3495663

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By Nic on 27 April 2010 at 6.27 pm
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Pig cell trials receive $4m from the NZ government

14 February 2010
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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.

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I’m on the list.

22 October 2008
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Well – I’m on the list of people the medical research team Project Manager will be calling in relation to the pig cell transplant trials Professor Bob Elliot is doing via Middlemore Hospital – I called them this morning.

This doesn’t mean that I’m going to leap head first into becoming one of the eight patients who will have insulin producing cells transplanted from a pig to me, but it does mean that I’ve put my hand up as interested, and if given the chance, I’ll be assessing the option very carefully. Watch this space!

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By Nic on 22 October 2008 at 10.10 am
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