A first surgery in Italy to repair articular cartilage using autologous cells taken from the nasal septum was performed by Prof. Giuseppe Peretti, head of University Equipe of Regenerative and Reconstructive Orthopaedics of the Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute of Milan
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Date24 Dec 2018
This first intervention is a part of the experimental clinical study “BIO-CHIP” funded by the European Commission Horizon 2020, which involves the enrollment of patients... Read More →
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg joins BIO-CHIP Consortium
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Date07 Aug 2018
The Orthopädische Klinik at the König-Ludwig Haus in Würzburg, Germany, part of the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg has become the project’s fifth trial site and is now recruiting... Read More →
TV report on first patients to be treated in Germany
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Date25 May 2018
SWR interviewed 2 patients and Keywan Izadpanah, the surgeon at the Uniklinik at Freiburg, on May 15th. You can watch the 2 and a half minute video Nasenknorpel... Read More →
Repair your knee cartilage with your nose
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Date02 May 2018
Our short animated video, repair your knee cartilage with your nose is now on the BIO-CHIP YouTube channel. It explains in straightforward terms that providing you’ve no osteoarthritis,... Read More →
NosetoKnee2 reaches Austria
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Date21 Jul 2017
Knie an Nase! Helfe Dir bei Deinem Knorpelschaden: neue Therapien gegen Knorpelschäden und Arthrose Nose to knee! Help with your cartilage damage: new therapies against... Read More →
From nose to knee: cartilage cells from the nose are exceptionally well suited to repairing damage in knee joints
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Date21 Jul 2017
UNI NOVA, the research magazine of the University of Basel, visit the USB team. The resulting article, giving an overview of the NosetoKnee2 process, is available in both... Read More →
BIO-CHIP partner in Zagreb treat first patient
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Date21 Jul 2017
After implanting the graft into their first patient, Izv. prof. Alan Ivković, dr. med and Dr. med Marcus Mumme from USB attend a press conference. The surgical... Read More →
Herstellungserlaubnis neuartige Arzneimittel
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Date20 Jul 2017
Fraunhofer announce they have received permission from the German authorities to manufacture the grafts for the project. “Das Translationszentrum »Regenerative Therapien für Krebs- und Muskuloskelettale Erkrankungen«, der... Read More →
Euronews visits University Hospital Basel and video transplant operation of cartilage from the nose to the knee
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Date20 Jul 2017
Following publication of the phase I trial Nasal chondrocyte-based engineered autologous cartilage tissue for repair of articular cartilage defects: an observational first-in-human trial in The... Read More →
First patient treated in Basel
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Date24 May 2017
Following the approval by Swissmedic of Basel as an additional manufacturing site, the first patient was treated on 10 January 2017