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Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Organ Transplant. 2015 Dec;20(6):663–670. doi: 10.1097/MOT.0000000000000244

Table 1.

Summary of Human Clinical Trials Using Human Pluripotent Stem Cells.

Trial Number Sponsor Disease Stem
Cell
Differentiated
Cell at Delivery
Method Start
Date
End
Date
Phase Estimated
Enrollment
Status*
NCT01217008 Geron Subacute
thoracic
spinal cord
injury
hESC Oligodendrocyte
progenitor cell
Injection Oct.
2010
Sept.
2013
I 4/10
received
transplant
Suspended
NCT02302157 Asterias
Biotherapeutics
Subacute
thoracic
spinal cord
injury
hESC Oligodendrocyte
progenitor cell
Injection Mar.
2015
Jun.
2013
I/II 13 Active,
recruiting
NCT01345006 Ocata
Therapeutics
Stargardt’s
Macular
Dystrophy
hESC Retinal
Pigmented
Epithelial Cell
Injection Apr.
2011
Aug.
2015
I/II 16 Ongoing,
but not
recruiting
NCT01344993 Ocata
Therapeutics
Dry age-
related
macular
degeneration
hESC Retinal
Pigmented
Epithelial Cell
Injection Apr.
2011
Sept.
2015
I/II 16 Ongoing,
but not
recruiting
-- RIKEN Wet age-
related
macular
degeneration
hiPSC Retinal Pigment
Epithelial Cell
Scaffold
implant
Sept.
2014
? -- 1 Active
NCT02286089 Cell Cure
Neurosciences,
Ltd.
Dry age-
related
macular
degeneration
hESC Retinal Pigment
Epithelial Cell
Scaffold
implant
Apr.
2015
Aug.
2017
I/II 15 Active,
recruiting
NCT02057900 Assistance
Publique-
Hopitaux de
Paris
Heart Failure hESC SSEA1+Isl-1+
cardiomyocyte
progenitor cell
Fibrin scaffold
implant
Jun.
2013
Jun.
2017
I 6 Active,
recruiting
NCT02239354 ViaCyte Type I
diabetes
mellitus
hESC Pancreatic
progenitor cell
(PEC-01)
Encapsulated
subcutaneous
implant
Sept.
2014
Aug.
2017
I/II 40 Active,
recruiting
*

As of August 2015.

hESC: human embryonic stem cell; hiPSC: human induced pluripotent stem cell.