Purpose&Contents : The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis (Phase II) and then to obtain an approval for Phase III study based on the resu...
Purpose&Contents : The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of mesenchymal stem cell transplantation in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis (Phase II) and then to obtain an approval for Phase III study based on the results of phase II. The contents include the following studies
- Manufacture and supply of investigational stem cell therapy product for phase II trial
- Safety evaluation of mesenchymal stem cell therapy
- Efficacy evaluation of mesenchymal stem cell therapy
- Development of potency assay for mesenchymal stem cell therapy product
- Data preparation for entering phase III clinical trials
Results
- Supply of investigational stem cell therapy product for phase II clinical study, which satisfies test methods and their specifications
- Efficacy and safety of mesenchymal stem cell therapy was confirmed in patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis through Phase II study, and its promising result was published in the international Journal (Hepatology)
- Improvement of histological fibrosis and liver function by MSC therapy.
- No serious MSC therapy-related toxicity and tumor formation.
- Development of potency assay for mesenchymal stem cell therapy product based on the inhibition of fibrosis-inducing cell with mesenchymal stem cell-secreted factors and then identification of related factor.
- Non-clinical safety of hepatic arterial mesenchymal stem cell injection was confirmed through the systemic toxicity study in nude rats
- Development of Phase III clinical protocol
- Development of test methods and their specifications for MSC therapy product of Phase III clinical study.
Expected Contribution
- Mesenchymal stem cell therapy can overcome the unmet medical needs in cirrhotic patients with no other therapeutic alternative to liver transplantation
- Early domestic commercialization (obtaining NDA approval) through the revised MFDS notification (conditional NDA approval after Phase II study)
- The non-clinical and clinical safety and efficacy data obtained from this study will provide the medicinal grounds for the success of planned Phase I clinical study in the US.
- Offer the possibility of expanding indications for mesenchymal stem cell therapy product to liver cirrhosis-like cirrhotic diseases (eg, chronic kidney disease)