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Laboratories or Companies That Have Developed Lines That Have Been Eligible

Listed below are entities that have developed stem cell lines that met the former presidential criteria and have been eligible for federal funding. Please click on the name of the laboratory or company for contact information.

Scientists may also obtain human embryonic stem cells from the National Stem Cell Bank.

Name Derivations Available Lines
BresaGen, Inc., Athens, Georgia
* The cells in line BG04/hESBGN-04 failed to expand into undifferentiated cell cultures.		 4 3*
Cell & Gene Therapy Research Institute (Pochon CHA University), Seoul, Korea 2
Cellartis AB, Göteborg, Sweden
* Cell line SA03/Sahlgrenska 3 withdrawn by donor.		 3 2*
CyThera, Inc., San Diego, California
* The cells failed to expand into undifferentiated cell cultures.		 9 0*
ES Cell International Pte Ld, Singapore 6 6
Geron Corporation, Menlo Park, California 7
Göteborg University, Göteborg, Sweden 16
Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
* The cells failed to expand into undifferentiated cell cultures.		 6 0*
Maria Biotech Co. Ltd. – Maria Infertility Hospital Medical Institute, Seoul, Korea 3
MizMedi Hospital—Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
* Cell line no longer eligible for federal funding.		 1 0*
National Centre for Biological Sciences/Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bangalore, India 3
Reliance Life Sciences, Mumbai, India 7
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel 4 3
University of California, San Francisco, California 2 2
Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, Madison, Wisconsin 5 5