The Commercial and Clinical Challenges and Opportunities for Advanced Materials in Regenerative Medicine

摘要

Regenerative medicine can transform many areas of clinical treatment in the future by restoring function tissues within patients. The field encompasses a broad range of product opportunities including drug therapies, biomaterials, cell therapies and engineered tissues. All of these product opportunities share a feature of being more complex in composition and function than the vast majority of pharmaceutical and healthcare products. This complexity allows considerable scope for innovation in the design, manufacture and administration of regenerative medicine products. However, complexity also introduces hurdles to commercial success that must be understood and planned for in research and development programmes.