Cellular therapy: Responding to COVID-19
In this episode, Allan Dietz, Ph.D., associate professor of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, instructor in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and consultant in the Division of Transfusion Medicine at Mayo Clinic discusses how the field of cellular ther
Lab Medicine Rounds · Mayo Clinic Laboratories
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Show Notes
Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:58 How is cellular therapy contributing to the COVID effort?
04:42 Can you give us a little bit of an introduction about what’s so important about the cell (mesenchymal stem cell) or where it comes from?
08:19 What sort of work are you and your lab doing for patient care?
11:14 Once you figure out a successful cellular therapy, is there then opportunity for that to get brought to scale for a given patient population, or does cellular therapy need to exist as a very individualized treatment?
13:48 For our listeners who might be students or other clinicians or laboratory medicine folks, how can they get involved in cellular therapy or how do you recommend those first steps to learn more about this field and how they might intersect with it?
15:50 Outro
Resources:
https://stemcellsjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/sctm.20-0472
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.10.15.20122523v2