K M Cherian's Heart Foundation gets DCGA nod for tissue devp

Drug Controller General of India has given an approval to a city-based health care service provider to develop and manufacture tissues used for the treatment of unmet medical needs.
The approval has been given to Chennai-based Dr K M Cherian's Heart Foundation and Frontier Lifeline Hospital to develop and manufacture Tissue Engineered Porcine Pulmonary artery (tePPA), Tissue Engineered Bovine Jugular vein (teBJV) and Tissue Engineered Bovine pericardium (teBP), a release here said.
"Now that we have got approval from the directorate, the trial will be done and the manufactured tissues will be sent to some of the leading colleges like AIIMS, JIPMER, for clinical tests," Fronter Lifeline Hospital and Heart Foundation CEO and Chairman Dr K M Cherian said.

Once the tests have been completed, Frontier Lifeline Hospital and Dr K M Cherian's Heart Foundation would manufacture and supply the tissues, he said.