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Centre for regenerative therapy opened in the city

Staff Reporter

Research coordination between Indian and Japanese institutes The facility will develop standardised treatment protocols and train clinicians and researchers in using them for countrywide propagation

CHENNAI: The newly-launched Nichi-In Centre for Regenerative Medicine (NCRM) aims to take stem cells and autologous tissues with regenerative capacity to clinical application.

The facility which was formally opened in Chennai on Saturday will coordinate research work between Indian and Japanese institutes, and develop standardised treatment protocols and train clinicians and researchers in using the same for countrywide propagation.

According to Dr. Samuel JK Abraham, Director, NCRM, regenerative procedures will not invade into any particular specialty of medicine or substitute prevailing definitive treatment modality. Rather, NCRM will equip the clinicians with an additional tool called stem cells in treating various disorders in the most ethical and scientific way, with transparency and adherence to the existing national and international guidelines.

Inaugurating the Centre, Yoshiaki Kodaki, Consul-General of Japan, Chennai, said Indo-Japan programmes such as those run by Nichi-In contributed to promote the understanding between the people of Japan and India.

Noting that South India had been known for high standards of medical science, technology and health care services, the Consul-General pointed out that research collaboration between the two countries could be mutually beneficial.

K.M Cherian, chairman & CEO, Frontier Life Line, said Regenerative Medicine would be the future and sooner, hospitals would be called "Centres for regeneration".

C.M Habibullah, Director, Centre for Liver Diseases, Hyderabad, said any new technology needed to be analysed in depth. The major limitation in the modern health care set-up in delivering stem cell therapy-based treatment is with the process of cell culture.

"We need animal cells for growing stem cells and controlling their differentiation is a big problem."

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