Cell Therapy

Aastrom Biosciences is a leader in the development of patient-specific multicellular therapies for the treatment of severe, chronic cardiovascular diseases. Cell therapy is the infusion, injection or transplantation of whole cells into a patient for the treatment of a disease or condition.The goal of cell therapy is to repair or restore damaged tissues or organs. One of the most common cell therapies is the use of bone marrow transplantation.

Aastrom uses a proprietary cell-processing manufacturing technology to expand naturally occurring populations of cells derived from the patient’s own bone marrow. The bone marrow sample taken from the patient in the first step of the process contains a range of cells known to play important roles in the natural healing mechanisms of the human body. Through research and clinical development, it has been shown that the Aastrom proprietary process yields a mixture of cell types with diverse properties that promote long-term tissue repair in conditions such as critical limb ischemia and dilated cardiomyopathy—critical cardiovascular diseases that currently have limited or no treatment options.