Macular Degeneration: Stem Cells
(asked on 9th February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether trials are occurring to test stem cells as a treatment for macular degeneration.
Answered by
Maria Caulfield
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade) (Minister for Women)
This question was answered on 21st February 2022
Stem cell treatments for macular degeneration are in an early experimental phase of development. The National Institute for Health Research Clinical Research Network has supported a recent study (2015-2019) producing stem cells to treat age-related macular degeneration and the Clinical Research Facility Network have supported 3 studies on macular degeneration and regenerative medicine and therapeutics in the past 5 years.