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ArticleNature communications2026

Human iPSC-cardiomyocyte-aggregate cell therapy in non-human primates and correlation of heart recovery with contractile and electrophysiological cardiomyocyte properties.

Ina Gruh, Andreas Martens, Serghei Cebotari, Annette Schrod, Alexandra Haase, Caroline Halloin, Wiebke Triebert, Nils Kriedemann, Tobias Goecke, Morsi Arar and 33 more

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Ina Gruh *Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Andreas Martens *Leibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Serghei CebotariLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Annette SchrodGerman Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany.
Alexandra HaaseLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2666-4297
Caroline HalloinLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Wiebke TriebertLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Nils KriedemannLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Tobias GoeckeLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Morsi ArarDept. of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Klaus HoefflerDept. of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Paul FrankHannover Heart Rhythm Center, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Karen LampeGerman Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany.
Amir MoussaviGerman Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany.
Anna KuleshovaLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Vojtech HradilLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Veronika FrickeLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Monika SzepesLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Kerstin Mätz-RensingGerman Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany.
Jörg EiringhausHannover Heart Rhythm Center, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Anna-Lena de VriesHannover Heart Rhythm Center, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Stephan HohmannHannover Heart Rhythm Center, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-1606-3423
Merlin WitteLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Tim KohrnLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Jana TeskeLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Kevin CyrysLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Sara SzadockaLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Annika FrankeLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Christopher WerleinDepartment of Pathology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7694-4257
Karlo KomorowskiDepartment of Radiation Protection and Medical Physics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0009-0000-2244-5834
Mark KühnelInstitute of Pathology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
Danny JonigkInstitute of Pathology, University Hospital RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5251-2281
Susann BoretiusGerman Primate Center, Leibniz Institute for Primate Research, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2792-7423
Christian VeltmannHannover Heart Rhythm Center, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
David DunckerHannover Heart Rhythm Center, Department of Cardiology and Angiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-2996-6338
Jonathan JungDepartment of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
Nissim BenvenistyDepartment of Genetics, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-8234-2685
Jeanne de la RocheInstitute of Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5753-1732
Martin FischerInstitute of Neurophysiology, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0009-0001-4997-0732
Axel HaverichLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Arjang RuhparwarDept. of Cardiac, Thoracic, Transplantation and Vascular Surgery, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.
Robert ZweigerdtLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-4656-0770
Ulrich MartinLeibniz Research Laboratories for Biotechnology and Artificial Organs, Cluster of Excellence REBIRTH, Carl-Neuberg-Straße 1, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany. martin.ulrich@mh-hannover.de.ORCID 0000-0003-1058-4540

Funding

Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 01EK1601ABundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 01EK2108ABundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 031L0249Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) 13XP5092BBundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (Federal Ministry of Education and Research) German Center for Lung Research (DZL; 82DZL002C1)Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) JO743/4-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) KFO311 / ZW64/7-1Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) REBIRTH EXC 62/2Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (German Research Foundation) ZW64/4-2EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 101056712Niedersächsische Ministerium für Wissenschaft und Kultur (Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture) ZN3340
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This study demonstrates the successful production and injection of human induced pluripotent stem cell cardiomyocyte aggregates into infarcted cynomolgus monkey hearts, resulting in substantial, structured human grafts three months after cell transplantation. Transient graft-induced arrhythmias decreased over time. Both the arrhythmogenicity and the substantial heart function recovery in vivo notably seemed to correlate with induced pluripotent stem cell clone-dependent contractile and electrophysiological cardiomyocyte properties in vitro. Overexpression of a red fluorescent reporter protein led to a dysregulated conduction and contraction machinery in yet engraftment competent cardiomyocytes, providing an important tool to mechanistically understand and improve induced pluripotent stem cell-based heart repair in preclinical models.We demonstrate the logistically important, temporal uncoupling of cardiomyocyte production from transplantation. Cardiomyocyte aggregate transplantation yielded results comparable to the reported transplantation of 10-20-fold higher numbers of dissociated human embryonic stem cell- cardiomyocytes and suggests a higher degree of cell/ tissue maturation in cardiac grafts. Our study promotes reduced cell production costs, highlights the need for an in vitro potency assay, and shows a pragmatic new avenue for the clinical translation of human induced pluripotent stem cell-based heart repair.

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Cell- and Tissue-Based TherapyInduced Pluripotent Stem CellsMyocardial InfarctionMyocytes, CardiacAnimalsArrhythmias, CardiacCell DifferentiationElectrophysiological PhenomenaHeartHumansMacaca fascicularisMyocardial Contraction

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PMID42649227
PMCPMC13518835

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