Search for European Projects

Degeneration of cartilage is a major cause of chronic pain, lost mobility and reduced quality of life for millions of European citizens. From a clinical point of view treatment to achieve cartilage regeneration (hyaline) and not only repair (fibrous) remains a great challenge. No clinical therapy is available that leads to healing of cartilage defects.Current cartilage implants cannot establish th ...

Cellular Cartilage Instruction has the potential to revolutionize cartilage repair. This phenomenon was recently discovered by CellCoTec (NL, industrial SME) and uses the instructive behaviour of cartilage cells and pliable nature of adult stem cells to eliminate the need for cell culture expansion, enabling a single surgery therapy for cartilage repair. Such a therapy is urgently needed by 1 mill ...