What is the UK Stem Cell Bank?
The bank exists to establish and make available fully characterised and quality-controlled cell banks. These will be supplied to scientific research teams and eventually to pharmaceutical companies, to enable the development of broad-ranging cell therapies. The bank will support the development of stem cell therapy in the UK by:
- Creating and growing a supply of well-characterised stem cell lines for researchers in the UK and abroad. This will allow the research teams to establish the basis for therapeutic applications.
- Creating, a bank of stem cell lines, under conditions consistent for the preparation of pharmaceutical products which provide cultures that could be supplied for the production of medicines for human use.