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ArticleStem cells international2025

Large Scale Manufacturing of Wharton's Jelly Mesenchymal Stromal Cells for Clinical Use.

Rupal P Soder, David Splan, Nathaniel R Dudley, Mark Szczypka, Sunil Abhyankar

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Article in Stem cells international, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03158896 (A Phase I Study To Evaluate the Safety of Umbilical Cord - Derived, Ex-Vivo Cultured and Expanded Wharton's Jelly Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of De Novo High Risk Acute or Steroid Refractory Acute Graft Versus Host Disease), which is not on this map. Cited by 1 paper.

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A Phase I Study To Evaluate the Safety of Umbilical Cord - Derived, Ex-Vivo Cultured and Expanded Wharton's Jelly Mesenchymal Stem Cells for the Treatment of De Novo High Risk Acute or Steroid Refractory Acute Graft Versus Host Disease

TypeinterventionalSponsorUniversity of Kansas Medical CenterRan2018 to 2025Enrolled24ConditionsAcute Graft Versus Host DiseaseArmsMSCTC-0010 Dose Escalation
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5 authors.

Rupal P SoderMidwest Stem Cell Therapy Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4567-6843
David SplanSartorius Stedim North America Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Nathaniel R DudleyMidwest Stem Cell Therapy Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.
Mark SzczypkaSartorius Stedim North America Inc., Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Sunil AbhyankarMidwest Stem Cell Therapy Center, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapies utilizing human mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are advancing through clinical trials, emphasizing the need for reliable, scalable, and cost-efficient manufacturing processes to support the lot sizes necessary for commercial-scale production. Wharton's jelly MSCs (WJMSCs) are valued for their regenerative abilities and immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties, which contribute to tissue repair. With growing therapeutic demand, the production of WJMSCs must scale to yield billions of cells while maintaining their essential characteristics-identity, purity, and potency-necessary for clinical and regulatory compliance. Achieving such magnitude of expansion entails the utilization of current good manufacturing practice (cGMP)-compliant scalable culture systems that allow bioprocess control and monitoring. This study aimed to establish a scalable serum-/xeno-free expansion process representing a critical step towards a cGMP-compliant large-scale production platform for WJMSC-based clinical applications. Using our in-house GMP-manufactured WJMSCs, which were tested in a Phase Ib clinical trial (NCT03158896), we have previously optimized various culture parameters using a microcarrier (MC)-based three-dimensional (3D) culture system in spinner flasks and demonstrated successful WJMSC expansion. In the present study, we successfully translated culture conditions to a 2 L followed by a STR50 (50 L) stirred-tank bioreactor (BR) (STR), adhering to cGMP requirements. The culture system in the 2 and 50 LBRs supported cell concentrations of approximately 1.2 x 10

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microcarriersstirred-tank bioreactorthree-dimensional suspension cultureWharton's jelly mesenchymal stromal cell

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PMID41209032
PMCPMC12595233

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