Slow Progress: A Decade Of Cell Therapy In Japan

Mixed Commercial Success

After 10 years of promised investment following its Nobel Prize for iPS cell research, Japan is cautiously narrowing regulations around the conditional approval of cell therapies and cutting some reimbursement prices. Commercial success remains mixed and some products have been withdrawn from the market.

Baby steps
Cell therapy is taking baby steps in Japan despite supportive regulatory policies • Source: Shutterstock

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