CABIMER

Home departments Celular Therapy and Regenerative Medicine  

This department led by Dr. Shomi Bhattacharya applies the results of cellular therapy and regenerative medicine as well as the transfer of knowledge to the health system, with the aim of improving the health of the population. Cellular therapy has as its goal the substitution of damaged cells by new ones. In this sense great importance is given to stem cells (embryo, adult and fetal) and their capacity to develop into cells of whatever type of tissue.

Besides this, stem cells may be used for other therapeutic applications such as toxicological and pharmacological assays as well as for the study of the first stages in the appearance of specific genetic diseases.

This department has initially set up lines of research in fields such as pancreatic regeneration, cellular therapy against Diabetes Mellitus, immunology, oncology, molecular pathology, tissue engineering, biomaterials, transplants and regeneration in vertebrates.