Cell Villages and Clinical Trial in a Dish with Pooled iPSC-CMs for Drug Discovery
Grant Award Details
Grant Type:
Grant Number:
TRAN4-14124
Investigator(s):
Human Stem Cell Use:
Award Value:
$1,350,000
Status:
Active
Progress Reports
Reporting Period:
Operational Milestone #1
Grant Application Details
Application Title:
Cell Villages and Clinical Trial in a Dish with Pooled iPSC-CMs for Drug Discovery
Public Abstract:
Translational Candidate
Human stem cells in a dish engineered into heart cells to supplement, refine, reduce, and/or ultimately replace human clinical trials.
Area of Impact
Increase genetic diversity of preclinical studies in human samples to derisk clinical trials and save time and costs.
Mechanism of Action
We will have several non-invasive human-derived stem cells collected and engineered into heart cells that replicate the patient's heart function. This collection of human-relevant heart cells can then be used for testing new drugs for preclinical studies prior to experimenting safety and efficacy on humans in clinical trials.
Unmet Medical Need
Drugs often fail clinical trials due to insufficient safety or efficacy, with the former carrying substantial risk to patients. Our tool increases genetic diversity of human cell lines the drug can be tested on to better predict safety and efficacy in humans.
Project Objective
Readiness for transfer to manufacturing.
Major Proposed Activities
Human stem cells in a dish engineered into heart cells to supplement, refine, reduce, and/or ultimately replace human clinical trials.
Area of Impact
Increase genetic diversity of preclinical studies in human samples to derisk clinical trials and save time and costs.
Mechanism of Action
We will have several non-invasive human-derived stem cells collected and engineered into heart cells that replicate the patient's heart function. This collection of human-relevant heart cells can then be used for testing new drugs for preclinical studies prior to experimenting safety and efficacy on humans in clinical trials.
Unmet Medical Need
Drugs often fail clinical trials due to insufficient safety or efficacy, with the former carrying substantial risk to patients. Our tool increases genetic diversity of human cell lines the drug can be tested on to better predict safety and efficacy in humans.
Project Objective
Readiness for transfer to manufacturing.
Major Proposed Activities
- Generate cell villages that models a collection of many diverse human hearts from different ethnic and genetic backgrounds.
- Evaluate the response of cells with the treatment of doxorubicin, a chemotherapy, which has been shown to have variable cardiotoxicity.
- Identify cell-specific and patient-specific response to doxorubicin from the cell village.
Statement of Benefit to California:
Cardiovascular diseases and cancer are the #1 and #2 leading causes of death in the US. This proposal aims to increase ethnic and genetic diversity representative of diverse populations such as California for evaluation of new drugs to supplement preclinical trials and better predict clinical trial outcomes.