Mesenchymal Progenitor cells and intervertebral disc repair

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1004032

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Low back pain affects 80% of the general population and is a major social and economic burden thus there is a clear need for effective treatment. Annual direct and indirect costs for low back pain exceeded $100 billion in the USA in 2006. We will use bone marrow derived multipotent progenitor cells in a regenerative strategy to undertake repair of the intervertebral disc in an ovine mechanical destabilisation model which reproduces early degenerative changes similar to those evident in man.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2011

End Date: 01-01-2014

Funding Scheme: NHMRC Project Grants

Funding Amount: $754,223.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Orthopaedics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

degeneration | intervertebral disc | musculoskeletal disorders | repair | stem cell therapy

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