HairClone Newsletter February 2018

One of the most interesting companies working on a cellular hair growth therapy, HairClone of the UK, has just released their first newsletter update of 2018. The contents of the newsletter have been divided into business updates and scientific updates for the company. One of the updates mentions a crowdfunding campaign video from HairClone and I’m really excited to see that when its released. Hoping for good things from HairClone this year 🙂  Below are the important details from the February 2018 newsletter.

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. 

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