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IHTI Newsletter, Summer 2008 - The Cole Hair Transplant Group
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HM: either very soon or very far off (Hair Multiplication & Research)

posted by cal, 10.05.2008, 07:36
(edited by cal on 10.05.2008, 07:41)

Follica and Acell are basically the only HM projects that are real these days, and anything truly new in the future would almost surely face the 10-year clinical trials process.



If Follica hasn't at least started the human testing within about a year (I didn't say finished the testing by then, just started it), then I think in all likelyhood the procedure will end up commercially dead.

We'll probably get an idea about Acell's efficacy for follicle regeneration inside of a year from now too.




So the way I see it, either we will hear of a real working HM inside of 2 years or HM is a total write-off. If it's not Follica or Acell in 2009 or 2010, then the next step forward (whatever it is) probably can't hit the market until 2025 or beyond.

In a strange way, I'm actually kind of comforted by this. At least it will end the long drawn-out torture of "probably 5 years away" that the MPB world has been suffering through for the last twenty years or more.

Complete thread:

• HM: either very soon or very far off - cal, 10.05.2008, 07:36 (Hair Multiplication & Research)
  • HM: either very soon or very far off - biston, 10.05.2008, 08:01
    • HM: either very soon or very far off - SPQR, 10.05.2008, 08:55
      • HM: either very soon or very far off - fckhrls, 10.05.2008, 17:13
        • HM: either very soon or very far off - cal, 10.05.2008, 18:21
          • HM: either very soon or very far off - fckhrls, 10.05.2008, 18:45
  • Acell - Raptor, 10.05.2008, 23:36
    • Acell - cal, 11.05.2008, 02:00
      • Acell - TheOne, 11.05.2008, 05:47
      • Acell - Raptor, 11.05.2008, 11:32
        • Acell - cal, 12.05.2008, 02:14
    • Acell - biston, 11.05.2008, 05:30