Comments on: UW Spinout, Beat BioTherapeutics, Aims to Make Stem Cells for Damaged Hearts http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/06/11/uw-spinout-beat-biotherapeutics-aims-to-make-stem-cells-for-damaged-hearts/ Business + Technology in the Exponential Economy Sat, 11 Feb 2012 03:54:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Juno http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/06/11/uw-spinout-beat-biotherapeutics-aims-to-make-stem-cells-for-damaged-hearts/comment-page-1/#comment-368735 Juno Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:29:26 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=28911#comment-368735 Any updates on how this and other stem cell companies do these days given the current crisis of US economy, consequent reduction of funding from NIH and private sector and yet, more exciting developments in the stem cell field? Any updates on how this and other stem cell companies do these days given the current crisis of US economy, consequent reduction of funding from NIH and private sector and yet, more exciting developments in the stem cell field?

]]> By: UW Spinout, Beat BioTherapeutics, Aims to Make Stem Cells for Damaged Hearts « Stem Cell News http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/06/11/uw-spinout-beat-biotherapeutics-aims-to-make-stem-cells-for-damaged-hearts/comment-page-1/#comment-67044 UW Spinout, Beat BioTherapeutics, Aims to Make Stem Cells for Damaged Hearts « Stem Cell News Mon, 22 Jun 2009 05:11:34 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=28911#comment-67044 [...] Read more on xconomy [...] [...] Read more on xconomy [...]

]]> By: Luke Timmerman http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/06/11/uw-spinout-beat-biotherapeutics-aims-to-make-stem-cells-for-damaged-hearts/comment-page-1/#comment-65459 Luke Timmerman Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:07:49 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=28911#comment-65459 Here's Buddy Ratner's response to the question about the $20 million in NIH support: "The $20M number is real. It was a grant at $2 million per year for 10 years in the NIH Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) program to Professors Ratner and Murry at the University of Washington (the grant is in its last year). Interestingly, the grant started under the G. W. Bush administration. Thus we were limited to approved lines of human embryonic stem cells. Even with this limitation (that we no longer have), we were able to show proof of principle. Of course, the grant was much larger in scope than just stem cells for heart muscle repair -- it addressed cell sources, heart mechanics, electrical properties, biomaterials, surgery and other issues." Here’s Buddy Ratner’s response to the question about the $20 million in NIH support:

“The $20M number is real. It was a grant at $2 million per year for 10 years in the NIH Bioengineering Research Partnership (BRP) program to Professors Ratner and Murry at the University of Washington (the grant is in its last year).

Interestingly, the grant started under the G. W. Bush administration. Thus we were limited to approved lines of human embryonic stem cells. Even with this limitation (that we no longer have), we were able to show proof of principle. Of course, the grant was much larger in scope than just stem cells for heart muscle repair — it addressed cell sources, heart mechanics, electrical properties, biomaterials, surgery and other issues.”

]]> By: chloe http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/06/11/uw-spinout-beat-biotherapeutics-aims-to-make-stem-cells-for-damaged-hearts/comment-page-1/#comment-65109 chloe Fri, 12 Jun 2009 14:54:58 +0000 http://www.xconomy.com/?p=28911#comment-65109 i read your article on Beat Biotherapeutics. i had to question the NIH funding amount of 20 Million. that is an extreamly large amount of funding considering that grants usually are under 500k. Is the 20million number accurate? can it be varified? i ask because there are many stem cell companies that are underfunded and i have yet to see participation from the NIH at this level before. is this a leading indication of how the Obama administration is going to support stem cell research. if the 20 million figure checks out then i think there is a larger story here. thanks, tony i read your article on Beat Biotherapeutics. i had to question the NIH funding amount of 20 Million. that is an extreamly large amount of funding considering that grants usually are under 500k. Is the 20million number accurate? can it be varified? i ask because there are many stem cell companies that are underfunded and i have yet to see participation from the NIH at this level before. is this a leading indication of how the Obama administration is going to support stem cell research. if the 20 million figure checks out then i think there is a larger story here. thanks, tony

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