need for soine product: As for the spinal surgery trial, the...

need for soine product:

As for the spinal surgery trial, the company hopes to commence a phase three trial this year. Several surgeons participated in the phase two trial and discussed their preliminary observations with Becker's Spine Review:

"We really need a therapy like this," says Hyun Bae, MD, medical director and director of spine education at Cedars-Sinai Spine Center, in a Becker's Spine Review report. "We don't currently know what to do with these patients; surgery sounds like a big hurdle to them, so we do other therapies to try to help. I think Mesoblast has great promise because we can take these patients and return them to regular activity without surgery."