No good news, instead a major disaster in appeal court re: Macchiarini affair
The German justice has spoken on trachea transplants again, in the appeal hearing at Kammergericht Berlin, and found the problemContinue Reading
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Macchiarini victim’s family sues trachea makers for wrongful death
Yesim Cetir was a young woman from Turkey, whose vulnerability the scandal surgeon used to test his plastic trachea (twice),Continue Reading
Trachea transplanters without borders
What with the EU phase 2 clinical trial TETRA going nowhere, the technology’s owner, Liverpool-based company Videregen decided to seek new clinical partners. Surgeons and universities from outside the EU are invited to test Videregen’s trachea transplant technology, which was originally developed together with Paolo Macchiarini by the UCL laryngologist and paid Videregen advisor Martin Birchall.
University of Iceland: no formal legal sanctions against Macchiarini partner Gudbjartsson
The University of Iceland in Reykjavik previously published an external investigation report into the first ever plastic trachea transplant, performedContinue Reading
EU trachea transplant clinical trial TETRA terminated
The European Commission admitted that their €6.8 mn phase 2 clinical trial TETRA with cadaveric tracheas, led by the UCL laryngologist Martin Birchall is unlikely to ever recruit any patients. In January 2019, the status was changed to “grant agreement terminated”
Los secretos de Macchiarini en Barcelona
English version below. El 12 de junio de 2008, el cirujano torácico y entusiasta de la medicina regenerativa Paolo MacchiariniContinue Reading
Expert witness Macchiarini to help Berlin court sentence criminal journalist
The stem cell pioneering surgeon Paolo Macchiarini is back in court now. No, he is not the accused this time.Continue Reading
UCL’s decellurised tracheas: strong and stable?
The European Union Commission staunchly refuses to tell me what exactly their funded scientists intend to do to the scheduledContinue Reading
UCL fibs Parliament about trachea transplants
The esteemed London university UCL seems to live in its own world. There, the regenerative medicine magic thrives, living organsContinue Reading
Appeal to Italian Parliament for an investigation into trachea transplants in Florence by Paolo Macchiarini
This is an Open Letter I sent today by email to the Italian Senate and its Health Committee, appealing forContinue Reading
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