EuroCell

Teamwork and collaboration are an important part of medical care as they allow us to make rapid progress without competition - indeed commercial competition generally prevents this kind of collaboration. The EU kindly supported me in leading a network across Europe of hospitals developing autologous chondrocyte implantation (ACI) also called transplantation (ACT). You will see how Norway, Sweden, Germany, Belgium and Spain have combined forces. The next plan was to activate this site so that a central database of patients can develop, although the ICRS an international organisation, has largely taken over this role. See more on www.cartilage.org. The initiative continues and the group is open to anybody who runs a hospital based cartilage cell service.