Stem Cell Research Products: Opportunities, Tools, & Technologies


December 1, 2012
118 Pages - SKU: BFM6690827
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OVERVIEW

Staying ahead of a hungry and fast moving pack of competitors requires the very best market insights.

So let’s get straight to the point.

We’re offering you access to a sophisticated market intelligence report for the stem cell research supply market.

Whether you already supply stem cell research products or you wish to expand your product line, you’ll know just how essential and lucrative this market is. We know you want to make effective product development decisions, to sell more effectively to scientists, to generate improved revenues and take market share from your competition.

This report – published in December 2012 – shows you how to do just that. Helping you understand the prevailing market conditions and giving you guidance to strategically position and develop stem cell product lines.

So when you choose our industry-leading market report, you’ll be gaining a competitive advantage in three core areas.

1. Understanding what your customers are thinking

A key component of this report is a survey of the very people you’re creating products for. The data gives you an intimate insight into the minds of over 400 research scientists – both domestic and international – working specifically in the stem cell sector.

This expert market intelligence allows you to more profitably focus your research and development budget. With a deeper understanding of the needs of your customers, intelligent product development is the inevitable result. This means you’ll develop more successful products and minimize your unprofitable R&D spending.

And, with access to the latest stem cell product research, you’ll be able to take advantage of new opportunities before your competitors are even aware of them.

2. Market to these customers more effectively

Just as you can focus your R&D spending on products with the greatest potential, so too can you ensure your marketing dollars work harder and smarter. With the insights and depth of market data contained in this report you can position your products to maximize revenue:
  • Reduce your marketing spending
  • Improve ROI for marketing dollars spent
  • Increase response rates
By understanding the current and future needs of your customer base you can focus your marketing efforts on the most profitable products, in the most promising research areas and within the most lucrative domestic and international markets.

3. Outmaneuver your competition (that’s the nice way to put it)

We’re witnessing an explosion in the value of the stem cell market, and that means more and more competitors for you.

As a forward-thinking leader, you’re not satisfied with maintaining a piece of this ballooning market – you want to dominate it. Of course, your competitors are no different and they’re planning to muscle you out of the game.

So sitting still will leave you behind. Our report allows you to do the opposite: to take decisive action, to innovate and to lead.

So avoid the shrinking revenues and squeezed margins that come from increased competition. Absorb this report and make decisions with confidence.
  • Learn the key strengths of your competitors
  • Intelligently position your products to fill gaps in the market
  • Understand crucial trends to stay ahead of your competition.
Tracking stem cell market trends, so you don’t have to

We have quantified and assessed the critical trends in the stem cell marketplace, ensuring all information is up-to-date. This means you’re able to focus your product development and marketing activity in exactly the right place to beat your competition. We compile and analyze data from a broad range of sources, including:
  • Stem cell grant funding
  • Stem cell patents
  • Stem cell publications
  • Stem cell product launches
  • New entrants to the market
  • International surveys
Not only do we measure these trends, but we also break the data down by stem cell types.

We are loyal to the data and year on year invest heavily in the best data mining and analysis tools. Couple this with our unrivaled knowledge of the stem cell product marketplace, and this report is a road map to your success.


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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Stem cells are primitive cells found in all multi-cellular organisms that are characterized by self-renewal and the capacity to differentiate into any mature cell type. Several broad categories of stem cells exist, including:
  • Embryonic stem cells, derived from blastocysts
  • Post-natal stem cells, derived from newborn tissues
  • Adult stem cells, found in adult tissues – including Hematopoietic stem cells, Mesenchymal stem cells, and Neural stem cells
  • Induced pluripotent stem cells, reprogrammed from adult cells
  • Cancer stem cells, which give rise to clonal populations of cells that form tumors or disperse in the body
  • Animal stem cells, derived from non-human sources
Stem cells are still a relatively new discovery, as the first mouse embryonic stem cells were derived from embryos in 1981, but it was not until 1995 that the first successful culturing of embryonic stem cells from non-human primates occurred and not until November 1998 a technique was developed to isolate and grow embryonic stem cells from human blastocysts. In 2006, induced pluripotent stem cells were produced for the first time from mouse cells and in 2007 there were produced from human cells. Furthermore, it was not until 2008 that the first full transplant of a human organ grown from adult stem cells was performed (a section of trachea was successfully transplanted into an adult woman in Spain).

The past 10 years have also witnessed the production of piPSCs, R-NSCs, and VSELs. Together, this evidence suggests that additional types of stem cells will likely be discovered, each representing new opportunities for research product development. Clearly, laboratory research into stem cell derivation, manipulation, and application is rapidly expanding.

To facilitate research resulting from these advances, a large and diverse stem cells products market has emerged. Large companies selling stem cell research products include Life Technologies, BD Biosciences, Thermo Fisher Scientific, and EMD Millipore, as well as over one-hundred other suppliers.

As of 2012, the following product categories accounted for more than 95% of all global stem cell product sales:
  • Antibodies to stem cell antigens
  • Bead-based stem cell separation systems
  • Stem cell protein purification and analysis tools
  • Tools for DNA and RNA-based characterization of stem cells
  • Stem cell culture and media
  • Stem cell specific growth factors and cytokines
  • Tools for stem cell gene regulation
  • Stem cell services and mechanisms for in vivo and in vitro stem cell tracking
  • Stem cell lines
Furthermore, to sell products into the stem cell market, it is critical to understand the research applications for which stem cells being studied. One area of study is the use of stem cells to understand and treat birth disorders. However, of greater interest to researchers is the potential for use of stem cells in regenerative medicine to treat conditions ranging from diabetes, to cardiovascular disease and neurological disorders.

For pharmaceutical companies, they have intense interest in the ability to use stem cells to improve drug target validation and toxicology screening. Furthermore, it is important for bio-pharmaceutical interested in stem cell therapy applications to understand underlying market forces, and in particular, to consider progressive areas of stem cell research as opportunistic areas for drug and therapy development. This report presents a range of topics of interest to these companies as well, including how advances in stem research can reveal potential new drug targets, improve methods of drug delivery, and provide personalized treatment strategies.

To summarize, the four key areas that account for more than 90% for all applied stem cell research, as of 2012, include:
  • Understanding and Treatment of Birth Disorders - Natal repair
  • Regenerative Medicine - Reversal of injury or disease
  • Drug Target Validation and Drug Delivery - Treatment of disease
  • Toxicology Screening - Drug safety and efficacy assessment
Furthermore, it is crucial for stem cell companies to understand the funding environment that supports stem cell research. Currently, the U.S. federal government is an important, although not dominant, source of funding for stem cell research. The reason is that U.S. states are spending almost as much as the federal government on stem cell research and are actually spending more than the federal government on human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research. Private sources also contribute a huge about of funding, with analysis of recent large gifts summing to over $1.7 billion.

Growth in stem cell research has exploded in the past decade. And so the market to supply stem cell research products has grown to meet this huge demand. There are now over one million stem cell researchers in 179 countries worldwide. In addition, there were only 17 stem cell product companies as of 2006 and that has expanded to more than 100 today, a 6-fold increase.

Not surprisingly, trend analysis reveals rapid increases in stem cell research activity over the past five years, specifically a scientific publication rate increase of 10.4% per year.

The stem cell types with the greatest year-to-year increases in publication rates over a trailing five-year period include:
  • Mesenchymal stem cells
  • Neural stem cells
  • Induced pluripotent stem cells
While hematopoietic and embryonic stem cells represent two of the most active areas of stem cell research, at 35.2% and 22.9% of total stem cell research respectively, publication rates for these stem cell types have declined in recent years. Because research activity by stem cell type has shown divergent trends over the past few years, for research product companies to be successful, they will need to understand underlying trends in stem cell preferences, by cell type.

This market intelligence report will advantageously position your company to offer competitive stem products to a rapidly growing, well-funded research community. Highlights of this report include:
  • Charts, Timelines, Metrics, and Financials
  • Rates of Stem Cell Grants, Publications, and Patents
  • Market Characterization and 5-Year Projections
  • Breakdown of Research Activity by Application, Species, Tissue Source
  • Geographical Assessment of Market Demand
  • Competitive Environment Analysis, by Product Supplier
  • Recent Product Evolution and Unmet Market Needs
  • Key Survey Findings from Your Prospective Clients – Stem Cell Scientists
  • End-User Wants, Technical Preferences, Factors Influencing Buying Decisions
  • And Much More
A key element of this report is a survey of stem cell researchers, for the U.S. and worldwide. This survey reveals critical findings that include:
  • Prevalence of Stem Cell Research by Cell Type
  • Stem Cell Product Preferences
  • Most Commonly Utilized Stem Cell Markers, by Stem Cell Type
  • Most Commonly Utilized Stem Cell Antibodies, by Stem Cell Type
  • Preferred Providers of Stem Cell Antibodies
  • And Much More
The market intelligence contained in this report was compiled using a broad range of sources, including:
  • Stem Cell Grant Funding Databases (NIH database, DoD database)
  • Stem Cell Patent Databases (USPTO)
  • Stem Cell Publication Databases (PubMed, Highwire Press)
  • Stem Cell Product Launch Announcements (Trade Journals, Google News)
  • International Surveys (Electronically distributed end-user surveys)
  • And More
In summary, there is conclusive evidence that entering the stem cell research products market is fiscally worthwhile. Full-year 2011 analysis determines the size the stem cell research products market to be $2.59 billion, and the stem cell therapies market to be $3.13 billion, for a total of $5.72 billion. In addition, both markets are growing with double-digit growth. Producing stem cell research products thus represents a massive profit opportunity for research supply companies.

Producing stem cell products can involve complicated and confusing decisions, but it doesn't have to. Claim this report to reveal the current and future needs of your customer base, so you can focus your marketing efforts on the most profitable products, in the most promising research areas and within the most lucrative domestic and international markets.

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