New Hairclone News - New Lab And License

[kingjohn]

nice new hairclone writeup over on FT:

HairClone Business Updates

• ‘HairClone’ has been successfully registered as a trademark in the UK and we are registering the new logo and ‘HairClone’ in the US and internationally.

• In November we were very happy to welcome Dr Bernstein founder of the Bernstein Medical Centre of Hair Restoration, NY city, as our second Banking Associate.

• We are working with a European based crowdfunding platform who are currently carrying out due diligence on the detailed information we have provided. We are pleased with our promotional crowdfunding video which underwent its final edit earlier this month and is ready to go.

• Further private investment was raised in January under the UK’s Seed Enterprise Investment Scheme (SEIS)

• Here are some facts and figures that we are using in our presentations:- Our Clinical partners and Banking Associates are award winning names in the field including current and past presidents and board governors of the International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery. They have a combined total of over two hundred years experience in hair transplantation and between them have carried out over sixty three thousand surgical hair restoration procedures. Already over one hundred million people are within fifty miles of a HairClone Clinical partner and we intend to continue to broaden this reach as we invite additional partners and associates.

HairClone Science Updates

• Research with human cells needs to happen in a facility with a ‘Human Tissue Authority Research License’. We have encountered some long and unexpected delays gaining approval to work on hair under Birmingham university’s HTA research license. However, the approval was obtained in January and on the 15th we activated our lease at the Birmingham BioHub. The research lab is now fully equipped and work started there in February.

• Last summer, in collaboration with Claire Higgins, we successfully developed a process for shipping, cryopreserving and thawing healthy workable follicles. Currently we are validating the process at our research laboratory which means carefully documenting all the steps and ensuring the process can be successfully repeated.

• Drs Bessam and Nilofer Farjo are actively recruiting volunteers at the Farjo Hair Institute who are willing to donate 25 hair follicles for this validation study. The validation study will form a critical part of our HTA license for banking. The HTA require different licenses for research and banking.

• Summik Limbu has settled into Claire Higgins’ lab at Imperial College and her PhD work is underway. She has spent time in Manchester with the HairClone team learning about the business and how her research will contribute to our goal to make hair loss history. As part of her work, she regularly receives hair follicles from the Farjo Institute for dissection.

• Dr Bessam Farjo was invited to present HairClone’s strategy in a keynote lecture at the 10th World Congress for Hair Research in Kyoto. The talk entitled “A New Approach to Hair Cell Therapy Combining Medical and Scientific Innovation in Hair Cloning’’ was well received.

thoughts? hairclone seems to be utilizing the same methods as tsuji ie multiplication and transplantation of follicular cells (germs?) and in my opinion doesnt get enough coverage here

http://www.folliclethought.com/hairclone-newsletter-2018/

 

[Iah11]

Its just because they are miles away. Funding is nowhere near as strong as Tsuji, and clinical trial process is much longer in the UK. It seems Hairclone has developed a potential method to implement to clone hair but theyve barely even started work (they started in February).

 

[itsjustsimon]

I wont need my hair when I’m 50. But cmon, any work towards finding a cure for hair loss is good

 

[kingjohn]

Its just because they are miles away. Funding is nowhere near as strong as Tsuji, and clinical trial process is much longer in the UK. It seems Hairclone has developed a potential method to implement to clone hair but theyve barely even started work (they started in February).

ahh ok, just looking at their site (even having a site while tsuji does not) seems like theyre at least as far along as tsuji et al but i didnt know they just started in feb

 

[Iah11]

I wont need my hair when I’m 50. But cmon, any work towards finding a cure for hair loss is good

Of course, of course. I was just responding to your question about the lack of attention

 

[Iah11]

**OPs question

 

[Iah11]

ahh ok, just looking at their site (even having a site while tsuji does not) seems like theyre at least as far along as tsuji et al but i didnt know they just started in feb

Triple post sorry. But yeah, they claim it was hard to get a greenlight on opening their lab.Their method is basically like Tsuji's and they claim it could be fully developed within "2-3 years".

From the site:

The main questions that research needs to determine are:

• The best markers to use to measure hair follicle inductivity
• The optimum system to expand cells in culture in order to maintain inductivity
• The mechanisms by which re-implanted cells rejuvenate and regenerate hair follicles

The interesting thing is that Tsuji team claimed in an email to a GourmetStyleWellness member (Noisette?) to have solved the inductivity issue of cloned hair cells. If thats true, huuuuuge if, the first two of their two objectives would be solved.

Maintaining the inductivity of hair follicle stem cells has been an issue for researchers for years now, interesting how HairClone regard it about it so casually.

 

[kingjohn]

Triple post sorry. But yeah, they claim it was hard to get a greenlight on opening their lab.Their method is basically like Tsuji's and they claim it could be fully developed within "2-3 years".

From the site:

The main questions that research needs to determine are:

• The best markers to use to measure hair follicle inductivity
• The optimum system to expand cells in culture in order to maintain inductivity
• The mechanisms by which re-implanted cells rejuvenate and regenerate hair follicles

The interesting thing is that Tsuji team claimed in an email to a GourmetStyleWellness member (Noisette?) to have solved the inductivity issue of cloned hair cells. If thats true, huuuuuge if, the first two of their two objectives would be solved.

Maintaining the inductivity of hair follicle stem cells has been an issue for researchers for years now, interesting how HairClone regard it about it so casually.

agreed it would certainly be huge and the big french fry story from earlier this year seems to address their second bulletpoint regarding the "optimum system to expand cells in culture"; in any case, the part of their site you quoted seems to be updated in 2016/17, so hopefully those issues have been addressed since and the research can now be focused on mass production/scale up and clinical application

 

[H]

ahh ok, just looking at their site (even having a site while tsuji does not) seems like theyre at least as far along as tsuji et al but i didnt know they just started in feb

Tsuji has a site though OrganTechnologies

 

[dermrafok]

Triple post sorry. But yeah, they claim it was hard to get a greenlight on opening their lab.Their method is basically like Tsuji's and they claim it could be fully developed within "2-3 years".

From the site:

The main questions that research needs to determine are:

• The best markers to use to measure hair follicle inductivity
• The optimum system to expand cells in culture in order to maintain inductivity
• The mechanisms by which re-implanted cells rejuvenate and regenerate hair follicles

The interesting thing is that Tsuji team claimed in an email to a GourmetStyleWellness member (Noisette?) to have solved the inductivity issue of cloned hair cells. If thats true, huuuuuge if, the first two of their two objectives would be solved.

Maintaining the inductivity of hair follicle stem cells has been an issue for researchers for years now, interesting how HairClone regard it about it so casually.

Yes, @Noisette is right. that's true. Tsuji / Riken scientists solved the problem of inductivity. Waiting for the publication of that scientific paper.
Thank you.

 

[BraveTommy35]

i am in England - can get involved in this to help the board?

 

[That Guy]

thoughts? hairclone seems to be utilizing the same methods as tsuji ie multiplication and transplantation of follicular cells (germs?) and in my opinion doesnt get enough coverage here

They don't get enough coverage because they have nothing.

There was (maybe still is) an ongoing Q&A with Paul Kemp and they don't even know how they're going to culture the cells and that makes a strong case for doubting that they have any idea about how to beat the final boss known as "the inductivity" problem.

A game that is Dark Souls, and currently only Tsuji has all the platinum trophies.

I actually forgot this company was a thing until reading this post, and I used to have all this sh*t memorized.

All that HairClone is, is a new approach to funding this kind of project that if it goes tits up, there isn't a tremendous lot at stake for "shareholders" to lose and if it goes right, Paul gets in the history books.

But getting a biopsy or FUE and sending it off on nothing more than a huge "Maybe, possibly, one day if we have the tech to do this, you get to be first in line!" is too great a gamble for most people.

I can get behind what this company is trying to do, but I think they're trying to run before even walking. And when they do get to the finish line?

They'd be doing good to finish 3rd.

 

[Toby0823]

UK? Yet the research has already started in Japan. Lol do they think Tsuji is sitting on his *** too much to consider this new research team? Maybe they found out Tsuji has been answering personal emails from depressed baldies during work hours far too many times?

 

[itsjustsimon]

UK? Yet the research has already started in Japan. Lol do they think Tsuji is sitting on his *** too much to consider this new research team? Maybe they found out Tsuji has been answering personal emails from depressed baldies during work hours far too many times?

Competition is good for us. It means we’ll get a cure sooner and cheaper.

 

[Jnix]

I wont need my hair when I’m 50. But cmon, any work towards finding a cure for hair loss is good

I thought the same, but I'm gonna be 43 this year and I still want all my hair back just as badly as ever.

 

[Toby0823]

Competition is good for us. It means we’ll get a cure sooner and cheaper.

That is true. But it’s bad that they think they can surpass Tsuji, who’s been doing this research for years now. One is a startup company and the other is an old asian guy answering multiple late night emails from random baldies. Don’t feel too happy with the current status, but I am glad they’re looking into cloning instead of Italian hair lotions lmao.