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Hope Beyond Hype is a comic about stem cells, from discovery to therapy! The story provides a realistic and accurate introduction to the complex process of developing best practice clinical stem cell-based treatments, in an interesting and engaging way.
This comic is useful for public events, new patients and carers, patient advocacy groups, educationalists, public engagement practitioners and researchers.
You can click the link below to read Hope Beyond Hype on Issuu, or scroll down to download PDF copies in all available languages.
About this project
The Hope Beyond Hype comic came from the brains of OptiStem, a large European consortium of stem cell researchers, to go beyond just explaining the science of stem cells. They wanted to show the process of moving stem cell research on towards clinical trials and therapies.
OptiStem was a partnership of 18 different leaders in stem cell research, funded by the European Commission. It brought together scientists, companies and clinicians from 18 institutions across six countries. During the course of the five year OptiStem project, members carried out four different clinical trials concerning muscular dystrophy, severe corneal injury in the eye and severe damage to the oral mucosa (inside of mouth). OptiStem partnered with EuroStemCell to tell people about their work.
