Advanced Cell Technology opens stem cell research facility in California

By Ted A. Knutson

Washington, Feb. 7 - Advanced Cell Technology, Inc. announced Tuesday it has opened a 15,000-square-foot facility in Alameda, Calif., that encompasses a 10,000-square-foot Good Manufacturing Practice-capable laboratory.

The company is in part opening its new facility in California in order to participate in the Proposition 71 initiative. With the passage of Proposition 71 in California, voters approved $3 billion in funding for the stem cell industry over the next 10 years.

The newly established California Institute for Regenerative Medicine was created to regulate stem cell research and provide funding, through grants and loans, for such research and research facilities.

"The acquisition of the GMP manufacturing facility and related equipment in our California facility will help us take the lead in the validated scale-up and manufacture of cells that will be used in our preclinical and human clinical trials," said Dr. Michael West, Advanced Cell's president and chief scientific officer, in a news release.

Advanced Cell Technology is a Worcester, Mass.-based biotechnology company applying stem cell technology in the emerging field of regenerative medicine.

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