For your knowledge, the
profit from the sale of RECYCLE
ME products t-shirts and jewelry go to the Foundation
Lars-Erik Gelin MemorialFoundation. The Fundation has this
year chosen to support this
amazing research (and five more!), see below.
Suchitra Holgersson and
Michael Olausson collaborate
in two different projects in stem cell research that is related to
the field of transplantation. They get
200 000 SEK each to the research that in the future may lead to possibilities to repair a failing liver instead
of transplant a new liver. Through the new technique that involves using the body's own material the patient avoids lifelong medication of rejection which in some cases can cause side effects.
Their research has
already had great clinical success. In
2012 the first two interventions
in the world with operation of a stem cell made from vein to replace a vein
to the liver that did not work was
published. Thanks to the surgery
a liver transplant was
avoided.
Two additional patients have been transplanted with
a similar technique at Sahlgrenska University Hospital. The technology to
produce new blood vessels opens great opportunities for more patient groups,
including patients on dialysis who have difficulty constructing accesses to the
bloodstream or heart patients who need new coronary arteries.
Text from press notification Gelinsfonden, freely translated.
