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Before an auditorium full of students of Medicine, Dentistry, Science and Technology Food and Psychology, began his presentation at the UCAM researcher Juan Carlos Izpisua, a specialist in developmental biology and professor and Doctor Honoris Causa by the UCAM, who he has lectured on the 10 years of the iPSCs cells as the present and future of regenerative medicine.
Estrella Nunez, dean of research at the Catholic University, made the presentation of the researcher.
The extraordinary professor of Developmental Biology by UCAM explained to attendees the current state of regenerative medicine, a new branch of medicine that seeks to replace cells or genes that have stopped working, either by the passage of time, an illness or an accident, and where they are working in the last ten years laboratories worldwide.
Izpisua has stressed the need to produce cells, tissues or organs in the laboratory "as the number of donors is not enough to cover the actual demand in the world's population" and be able to correct the function of genes , "that cause diseases that have no cure today."
It is recalled that the professor leading the research with which it is intended to obtain human organs for transplantation in pigs in sick, work promoted by the Catholic University of Murcia and developed by a team of scientists from the United States and Spain.
In this regard, Dr. Izpisua stressed that "in the last two years we have carried out a research with UCAM that my view has been exceptional, which we never thought we could do, and the support of the Catholic University has been key to some of the discoveries that we've
have obtained "and stressed the support" of the educational institution disinterested science ".
On the future of regenerative medicine, the researcher has asserted that goes to "the use of cell parts, those that have stopped working or also the use of genes, introducing genes in our bodies that somehow replace those they have broken with the passage of time. "
Izpisua has sent a message of caution to the advances that are emerging.
"Research takes place in the laboratory and to take her to hospital a long time and a lot of knowledge that we still do not need. It is a hope, real, but we are not there yet in the clinic. Unfortunately there are people who take advantage of that
hope and try to deceive the sick saying that certain diseases can be cured with certain treatments that are not real.
And that is what we must try to avoid. "
Source: UCAM
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