Regenerative medicine for liver cirrhosis

Lead researcher

Rebecca Lim

Main finding

Treatment options for patients with end stage liver cirrhosis are incredibly limited. Ultimately, a liver transplant is the only cure. Our preclinical research to date has provided robust data suggesting that allogeneic human amnion epithelial cells (hAECs) can reverse established liver fibrosis and reduce liver inflammation despite ongoing damage. It is with these promising data that we had progressed our research to a Phase 1 clinical trial, where we hope to determine the safety profile of these stem-like cells in patients with compensated liver cirrhosis.

Centre

The Ritchie Centre

Research group

Amnion Cell Biology

Co-authors

Dr Alex Hodge, Dr Gregory Moore, Prof Euan M. Wallace and Prof William Sievert

Journal and article title

Most surprising

NA

Future implications

NA

Disease/health impact

liver cirrhosis

Associate Professor Rebecca Lim from the Amnion Cell Biology Research Group at Hudson Institute