The Utrecht-based company TargED Biopharmaceuticals received the first start-up funding from the FIRST fund, founded by the DCVA, RegMed XB and RVO. With the support of this new investment, the company can conduct follow-up research with their compound (Microlysis) that dissolves blood clots. The potential effect of this drug in strokes was discovered at UMC Utrecht.

“Should human embryo-like structures be considered human embryos? If not, do they resemble human embryos so closely that they should still be due some moral and legal protection?

Congratulations to Margot Rikkers on the publication of the paper “Importance of Timing of Platelet Lysate-Supplementation in Expanding or Redifferentiating Human Chondrocytes for Chondrogenesis” in the Preclinical Cell and Gene therapy section of Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology magazine.