Clinical Development and New Product Introduction Subcommittee

Charter

To serve as a network hub for connecting industry, regulatory agencies, therapeutic societies and translational centers to advance emerging cellular therapies.

Objectives

  • To track the status of advancing stem cell therapies and identify roadblocks and solutions to further commercialization
  • To organize workshops and forums in emerging cell based therapies in order to inform industry and capital investors towards accurate risk analysis in commercial trials
  • To expose global regulatory agencies to open debate around standardized pre-clinical models and safety assessment in specific disease areas
  • To work with ISCT committees and membership to provide physicians with sufficient characterization and potency information to distinguish similar stem cell types relative to patient safety and benefit

Priorities

  • To create relationships with ISCT stem cell and therapeutic area committees to prototype workshop and key opinion leader forums
  • To work with the ISCT Industry Community to prioritize commercialization objectives, and to hold forums in two global areas within first year of activity
  • To engage therapeutic society members to join ISCT, the Commercialization Committee and new Therapeutic Area Committees for the purpose of organizing KOL workshops and forums
  • To identify new relationships with regenerative medicine companies and institutional stem cell centers.

Key Benchmarks 2011

Stage therapeutic area Webinar, Focus Group and Workshops:
CNS Workshop, NA
IBD Focus Group, NA
Allogeneic transplant and GVHD, EU
CVD, NA

September
December
Jaunuary 2012

Benchmark and reach publication expectations from workshops including publication in Cytotherapy

September to March 2012

Integrate Industry Community perspectives and prioritize 2011, 2012 themes

July

Initiate Webinar Series on product, process platforms in Australia, Asia

June

Solve for integration of Regulatory Agencies, utilizing ISCT LRAs and public forums; Bring discussion topics from Therapeutic workshops into public meetings with global Regulatory agencies

September


Roster

Chair:

Robert Deans (USA)
VP, Regenerative Medicine
Athersys, Inc.
rdeans@athersys.com

Members:

Ronnda Bartel (USA)
Aastrom Biosciences Inc.

Dawn Driscoll (USA)
Principal
DCi Biotech Inc.
ddriscoll@dci-biotech.com

Tim Fong (USA)
Program Director
BD Biosciences
tim_fong@bd.com

Chaya Mazouz(ISR)
VP Clinical and Regulatory Affairs
Pluristem Therapeutics Inc.
chaya@pluristem.com