RESEARCHERS
The Andalusian Network for the design and translation of Advanced Therapies (ANd&tTA), through its Coordination Unit, fosters translational research in the field of advanced therapies, by encouraging synergies among technologists, basic researchers and clinicians, and by promoting collaborative research between the different advanced therapy areas: cell therapy and regenerative medicine, clinical genetics and genomic medicine and nanomedicine. To achieve this, the ANd&ytTA cooperates with all agents involved, including those from the academic world, research institutions, health centres, patients’ associations, biotechnological SMEs and the pharmaceutical industry. The boost given to this research has required, among other things, the development of infrastructure and the supply of equipment needed for the research itself as well as that required for the manufacturing of clinical grade quality products, i.e GMP laboratories.
Advanced therapies comprise cell therapy, gene therapy and tissue engineering. For the most part, these are considered a special type of medicinal products. The only exception is the cell therapy which is considered as a cell transplant and not as a medicinal product when the cells are not subject to substantial manipulation and are used to carry out their normal function or essential functions.
"What I probably admire the most of the Andalusian Network for the design and translation of Advanced Therapies is that it does not matter whether the solution to a genetic disorder or a traumatic injury is developed first in Andalusia or in India, or USA. What it matters to them is that it should be implemented in Andalusia, by Andalusian Scientists and Physicians, with no delays.
There is an incredible level of dedication in all members of Team, a contagious energy spirit headed by its director. As a consequence, this incredible talented group of scientists, administrators, and health care workers, are immune to those unwilling to recognize that new therapies for untreatable conditions can indeed be developed in Andalusian soil."
Prof Jose Cibelli
Professor of Animal Biotechnology
Head of Cellular Reprogramming Laboratory
Michigan State University, USA
Scientific Director -LARCel – Seville, SPAIN