Kadimastem

kadimastem is a company that is devoted to biopharmaceutical industrial applications of human embryonic stem (hes) cells, and other pluripotent stem cells, such as ips cells. kadimastem is developing the use of pluripotent cells for manufacturing specific human tissues for two separate purposes (using different es cell lines): a) therapeutic applications in regenerative medicine as an example, kadimastem runs a program to produce human pancreatic islets that could be used for transplantation in diabetic patients. b) pharmaceutical r&d applications for drug screening kadimastem produces a number of human cell and tissue systems that constitute screening platforms to search for agonists or antagonists of specific biological processes, with the aim of developing efficient and safe drugs. such systems, using different hes-derived human tissues, can also be applied for evaluating toxic or other side effects of r&d drugs. screening in vitro with human tissue cultures has advantages over the