Current Collaborations
Roslin Cells engages with all enquiries by developing a collaborative agreement with partners. A selection of our current collaborations are outlined below.
Blood Pharming
Project Overview –
A Wellcome Trust funded project, evaluating the potential of using stem cells to generate red blood cells for use in transfusions. Participants in the £3 million research programme are Roslin Cells, the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service, NHS Blood and Transplant, the Irish Blood Transfusion Service, and the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh.
Our Role –
Roslin Cells’ role is to supply both research and clinical grade stem cells for use in the project and to “translate” the differentiation protocols developed in the project to GMP standards.
Biochemically Equivalent Substitutive Technology for Stem Cells (BEST-Stem Cells)
Project Overview –
This collaboration aims to overcome the current need for the use of animal derived products, such as serum and enzymes, in the maintenance, production and storage of stem cells by developing novel stem cell culture conditions. Current products are considered a disease risk and thus removing these products from the manufacture of cells would represent an important step towards their use as therapies.
BEST-Stem Cells is being coordinated by Dr Paul De Sousa (MRC Centre for Regenerative Medicine, University of Edinburgh and Roslin Cells). The research collaboration also includes academic units at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM) France; Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Germany and the Universite de Liege, Belgium; along with partners Bioneer A/S in Denmark; Roslin Cells Limited and Glycomar Limited in Scotland.
Our Role –
Roslin Cells plays an important role in assisting in the translation of all BEST-Stem Cell activities towards GMP standards.
Cinical translation of endothelial cells derived from human embryonic stem cells
Project Overview –
A collaboration with University of Glasgow – details to be released later
