Concise Review: Cell Therapies: The Route to Widespread Adoption

This study identifies three dimensions with which to classify heuristically the routes to widespread adoption of cellular therapies: the relative involvement of clinicians and companies, cell type and scale of manufacture, and therapeutic intervention as a procedure or product. It is suggested that for those cellular therapies that require therapeutic procedures, close collaboration between companies and clinicians will reduce the time to widespread adoption. For selected cellular therapies, predictions are made of the likely time to widespread adoption.