Cell and tissue therapy centre inside the Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, the Catholic University of Louvain's teaching hospital in Brussels, producing cultured stem cell products.
Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc is the university teaching hospital of the Université catholique de Louvain, located at Avenue Hippocrate 10 in Brussels. Within it the hospital describes a Centre de thérapie tissulaire et cellulaire, a centre for tissue and cell therapy.
According to the hospital's own article, the centre takes stem cells from organs, specifically adipose or fat tissue and the liver, and grows them in culture in order to turn them into cell therapy products. These products can then be injected with the aim of preventing or treating various conditions. The article also describes ongoing work on cell derived microvesicles, and mentions two pieces of equipment funded by the Fondation Saint-Luc: a robotic filling station for standardised preparation and an ultracentrifuge used to isolate microvesicles.
The article names Professor Etienne Sokal, who heads the hospital's paediatric gastroenterology and hepatology department, as the person responsible for this human biological material, and states that he has performed cell grafts in around twenty patients. Readers should understand this as a hospital based development and production programme with a small clinical caseload rather than an open service offering routine stem cell treatment; the page gives no referral pathway for prospective patients.
The site makes no outcome or success claims for these treatments and publishes no costs. Anyone considering care here would need to approach the hospital directly to find out whether treatment is available to them and on what basis.
The hospital's cell therapy article is unusually vague about indications, which is worth noting.
The hospital states that its cell and tissue therapy centre grows stem cells taken from fat tissue and from the liver into cell therapy products for injection.
The article names one clinician in connection with the centre.
The centre sits inside Cliniques universitaires Saint-Luc, a large university teaching hospital at Avenue Hippocrate 10 in the Woluwe-Saint-Lambert area of Brussels. The article describes laboratory facilities for cell culture and product preparation, including a robotic filling station and an ultracentrifuge purchased with support from the Fondation Saint-Luc. The wider hospital site lists consultations, inpatient care, an operating suite, laboratories, clinical research and a service for international patients.
The hospital's cell therapy article says nothing about cost, and no fees for cell therapy are published anywhere on the pages read. This is a Belgian university hospital, so charges would follow the national system, but that is not stated on the page.
Profile compiled from information published on the clinic's own website and from the StemCell Registry directory record. Details may change; confirm directly with the clinic before making decisions.