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title: Create personalized stem cell therapies
nct_id: NCT00874783
status: RECRUITING
sponsor: Hadassah Medical Organization
study_type: OBSERVATIONAL
canonical_url: "https://parkinsonspathways.com/trial/NCT00874783"
clinicaltrials_gov: "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00874783"
last_fetched: "2026-05-10T14:05:24.416Z"
source: "Parkinson's Pathways (curated)"
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# Create personalized stem cell therapies

**Goal (in five words):** Create personalized stem cell therapies

**Official Title:** Derivation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Somatic Cells Donated by Patients with Neurological Diseases for the Study of the Pathogenesis of the Disorders and Development of Novel Therapies

**Trial ID:** [NCT00874783](https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT00874783)

## Key Facts

- **Status:** RECRUITING
- **Study Type:** OBSERVATIONAL
- **Sponsor:** Hadassah Medical Organization
- **Target Enrollment:** 120 participants
- **Start Date:** 2009-04
- **Completion Date:** 2030-12
- **Conditions:** Neurodegenerative Disorders

## Summary For Families

The goal is to make patient-derived stem cell models so researchers can see how neurodegenerative diseases start and help develop new therapies. Donors give a small sample of tissue or a few intact hairs, those somatic cells are reprogrammed into induced pluripotent stem cells and then turned into neurons in the lab so scientists can study disease processes and test potential drugs on cells with the patient’s own genetics. The study is looking for adults 18 and older who have a diagnosed neurodegenerative disorder and can donate tissue during a medical procedure or a few hairs, and it also accepts healthy adult donors, aiming for about 120 participants. There is no experimental treatment given to participants, and no exclusion criteria were listed.

## Eligibility

- **Minimum age:** 18 Years
- **Sex:** ALL

### Full Criteria

```
Inclusion Criteria:

* Donors suffering from different (specified) neurodegenerative disorders scheduled to undergo surgery for medical reasons or will donate a single or a few hairs--to be removed intact from the scull or other areas in the body.
* Healthy donors scheduled to undergo surgery for medical reasons or will donate a single or a few hairs--to be removed intact from the scull or other areas in the body.

Exclusion Criteria:

* None
```

## Locations (1)

- Hadassah Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, Israel, Israel _(31.7690, 35.2163)_
  - Benjamin E Reubinoff, Professor — (CONTACT) — 972-2-6776424/5 — benr@hadassah.org.il
  - Shelly E Tannenbaum, MSQA — (CONTACT) — 972-2-6775700 — stannenbaum@hadassah.org.il

## Central Contacts

- Benjamin E. Reubinoff, MD PhD — (CONTACT) — 011-972-2-677-4569 — benjaminr@ekmd.huji.ac.il
- Shelly E Tannenbaum, MSQA — (CONTACT) — 97226777947 — stannenbaum@hadassah.org.il

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