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A San Diego-based company is making progress toward curing baldness.
The CEO and co-founder of Stemson Therapeutics Geoff Hamilton told KGTV they have figured out to program and control cell behavior to develop a therapy that regenerates hair follicles.
“We take the cells in our skin that are responsible for growing hair and we direct them in a way that enables a new hair follicle to grow in the skin,” said Hamilton.
According to Hamilton, these are only recent scientific developments.
“The biology is very complicated and trying to control what our cells are doing in the skin is not simple to do, so over the last five to ten years, technology has advanced and scientific understanding has advanced that we can now control what these cells do," said Hamilton.
They've already received a lot of interest from people who want to help out with human trials but they're not ready to start that process yet.
The company is currently focused on expanding its research by adding more staff and experts in order to get FDA approval for human trials.
Hamilton said that hair loss is an issue that impacts both men and women. The treatment could also help people struggling to grow their hair back after chemotherapy treatments.