Current Trends in Cell Therapy

Since last year, Im sharing some trends in cell therapy clinical trials. Real time tracking of all registered trials allows to identify trends in multiple dimensions. Today Im posting a snapshot of trending for the last 3 years from 2011 to 2013. There could be some minimal discrepancies in numbers between this and previous reports (due to accidental detection of trials which were not captured initially). Please refer to this report as the latest update.

Total number of trials Total number of cell therapy trials, registered in international databases, continue to increase. From 2011 to 2013 a total number of trials increase about 2 times.

The value of US NCT database (ClinicalTrials.gov) remains constant over the years, representing 74% of all registered cell therapy trials internationally.

Sponsorship The number on industry-sponsored clinical trials significantly increased in 2013, compared to previous two years. In the same time, the number of academic trials continue to grow even more rapidly.

Demographics As in the previous 2 years, US and China dominated all other countries in number of cell therapy trials in 2013. However, the US trend is positive, but Chinas trend is negative. Interestingly, Japan made a biggest jump up in 2013. South Korea, UK and Iran stay pretty much flat over last 3 years.

This graph shows a value of the most representative countries in % of total trials number.

If we look at regions in general, we will not able to see significant fluctuations in the last few years. Id only notice a shrinkage of Europe in 2013.

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Current Trends in Cell Therapy