Hey guys, this japan researcher you talked about is working with Regience company
"Hair engraftment improvement:Research for the regeneration of hair
Regience made an agreement with Tokyo University and ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd. for collaboration research to the regeneration medicine of hair. Through this collaboration,
Regience aims for the clinical application of regenerative medical products, developed upon the in vitro and in vivo studies with Koutaro Yoshimura, Lecturer of Department of Plastic Surgery, Tokyo University, Graduate School of Medicine and ROHTO Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd."
the company work on two different approach for hair regeneration:
- medications ones with the work of this guy (VD3,laminin 511,332) and the work of other researchers from Osaka univ (in preclinical in their pipeline)
-and a stem cell therapy with Dr. Hironobu Fujiwara/RIKEN Center
this quote is from april so things have moved on since then:
"Regience paid our attention to the hair follicle study, which is expected to be immediately applied to the regenerative medicine, and concluded a collaborative research agreement with Dr. Fujiwara. In this project, we are first seeking to reconstitute the hair follicle organization by using murine cells and referring epithelium and mesenchymal stem cell niches (Fig.3). Subsequently, we challenge to the human hair follicle reconstitution that can be used for a regenerative medical product.
While the reconstitution of the hair follicle are being studied all over the world, the successful case has not been reported yet. Regience shall commit to this big mission in the joint research with RIKEN.
The reconstituted hair follicles are able to be transplanted to the human body as same procedure of the current hair implant surgery and therefore, we expect that the reconstituted human hair follicles becomes to be the ultimate materials for the cure of AGA.
http://regience.jp/english/rd-pipeli...duct-research/
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