Red de Terapia Celular

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Red de Terapia Celular company profile

The Cell Therapy Network (TerCel) is a collaborative project that began its activity under the first RETICs call of the Carlos III Health Institute in 2003 in order to promote research in cell therapy and transfer scientific advances in this field to the patients of the National Health System. The TerCel Network is made up of 32 groups from all over Spain that include 382 basic researchers, clinicians and medical professionals working together, under a multidisciplinary and cooperative approach, with the main objective of discovering and describing the mechanisms of the beneficial actions of the cell therapy in human diseases by developing experimental approaches, including transplantation of autologous and heterologous cells from different cell populations (adult, embryonic, or IPSC), to improve the health of patients.