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. 2018 Jul 19;11(2):485–496. doi: 10.1016/j.stemcr.2018.06.012

Table 4.

Clinical Trials Based on Human Pluripotent Stem Cells

Sponsor Disease(s) (as Indicated) Study ID Country
Clinical Trials Based on hESCs

Assistance Publique – Hôpitaux de Paris ischemic heart disease NCT02057900 France
Astellas Pharma Stargardt macular dystrophy NCT01345006 United States
Astellas Pharma advanced dry AMD NCT02463344 United States
Astellas Pharma AMD NCT03178149 not specified
Astellas Pharma AMD NCT01344993 United States
Astellas Pharma Stargardt macular dystrophy NCT02941991 UK
Astellas Pharma Stargardt macular dystrophy NCT01469832 UK
Astellas Pharma Stargardt macular dystrophy NCT02445612 United States
Astellas Pharma macular degenerative disease NCT03167203 not specified
Asterias Biotherapeutics spinal cord injury NCT02302157 United States
Asterias Biotherapeutics spinal cord injury NCT01217008 United States
Cell Cure Neurosciences AMD NCT02286089 Israel, United States
CHA Biotech dry AMD NCT01674829 Korea
CHA Biotech Stargardt macular dystrophy NCT01625559 Korea
Chinese Academy of Sciences dry AMD NCT03046407 China
Chinese Academy of Sciences nonexudative AMD NCT02755428 China
Chinese Academy of Sciences Parkinson's disease NCT03119636 China
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology dry AMD ChiCTR-OCB-15007054 China
Chinese Academy of Sciences, Institute of Zoology retinitis pigmentosa ChiCTR-OCB-15007055 China
Eye Institute of Xiamen University severe ocular surface diseases ChiCTR-OCB-15005968 China
Federal University of São Paulo AMD, Stargardt disease, exudative AMD NCT02903576 Brazil
Pfizer AMD NCT03102138 UK
Pfizer AMD NCT01691261 UK
Regenerative Patch Technologies dry AMD NCT02590692 United States
Southwest Hospital, China macular degeneration diseases, not specified NCT02749734 China
Viacyte diabetes mellitus type 1 NCT03162926 Canada
Viacyte diabetes mellitus type 1 NCT02239354 United States, Canada
Viacyte diabetes mellitus type 1 NCT02939118 United States, Canada
Viacyte diabetes mellitus type 1 with hypoglycemia NCT03163511 United States

Clinical Trials Based on hiPSCs

RIKEN exudative AMD UMIN000011929 (based on autologous iPSCs) Japan
Cynata Therapeutics graft-versus-host disease NCT02923375 (based on allogenic iPSCs) Australia, UK
Kobe City Medical Center General Hospital neovascular AMD UMIN000026003 (based on allogenic iPSCs) Japan

Follow-up studies among hPSC-based trials are highlighted with a blue background. Withdrawn studies were not included. Studies that only aim at the derivation of patient-specific hiPSC lines and therapeutic cells thereof (but not at the treatment of patients with these hiPSC-derived therapeutic cells) were not included either. iPSCs, induced pluripotent stem cells.