BioCardia Announces FDA Approval of IND Application for Allogeneic NK1R+ Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Ischemic Heart Failure

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Dec 06, 2022

BioCardia%2C+Inc. [Nasdaq: BCDA], a developer of cellular and cell-derived therapeutics for the treatment of cardiovascular and pulmonary diseases, today announced Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of its Investigational New Drug (IND) application to initiate a first-in-human Phase I/II clinical trial of its Neurokinin-1 receptor positive (NK1R+) allogeneic human mesenchymal stem cell (MSC) therapy for the treatment of patients with ischemic heart failure.