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
Tag: regenerative medicine
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.
Martin Birchall’s two dead pigs to prove trachea transplants are safe
Imagine you are Martin Birchall, laryngologist and ENT surgeon, star of regenerative medicine at UCL and trachea transplant enthusiast. You and your business partner Videregen need to explain to EU bureaucrats why your technology of decellurised cadaveric trachea is perfectly safe, what with all the dead patients of yours and your former best friend Paolo Macchiarini. Yet both your trachea transplant pigs die. EU authorities however accept this as proof that your method is safe!
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
Sumitran-Holgersson and Olausson to retract 8 papers for research misconduct
Bad news for regenerative medicine enthusiasts, the data manipulating biologist Suchitra Sumitran-Holgersson and her surgeon partner Michael Olausson, both professors atContinue 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
Trachea transplanters: Round 2 at UK Parliament
The Science and Technology Committee of the British House of Commons is now dealing with the trachea transplants performed byContinue Reading
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