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Introduction

Cellsource, led by CEO Masayuki Yamakawa, has announced a strategic partnership with C-FORTE, a medical consulting firm headed by CEO Kei Noguchi. This collaboration aims to revolutionize the delivery model for regenerative medicine and rehabilitation, addressing significant challenges in the healthcare sector.

Background and Purpose of the Partnership

In recent years, regenerative medicine in orthopedics has expanded rapidly, yet the effective integration with rehabilitation has been lacking. The challenges facing medical professionals include:
1. Insufficient collaboration with rehabilitation services.
2. Lack of knowledge in implementing out-of-pocket treatment options.
3. Poor design of patient engagement processes.

Current healthcare systems, primarily centered on insurance-based practices, impose constraints on the value that healthcare providers and physiotherapists can offer. This partnership seeks to tackle these issues through:

• - Developing integrated treatment models combining regenerative medicine and rehabilitation.
• - Providing support for implementing out-of-pocket treatments.
• - Creating patient engagement strategies centered around physiotherapists.

The goal is to maximize the effectiveness of regenerative medicine and accelerate its implementation in society.

Overview of the Partnership

This collaboration will focus on developing a comprehensive structure that integrates people, systems, and operations to support the dissemination of regenerative medicine:

1. Organization and Certification of Physiotherapists

The plan involves organizing physiotherapists and developing a certification system that allows them to systematically acquire knowledge and practical skills related to regenerative medicine. This initiative is also aimed at creating new career paths and enhancing professional expertise for physiotherapists.

2. Establishing an Associative Body and Educational Infrastructure

The partnership will assist in forming an association that merges regenerative medicine and rehabilitation, providing education curriculums and research opportunities for medical professionals, ensuring ongoing education and certification.

3. Supporting Operations for Medical Institutions

The partnership will design clinical models combining regenerative medicine with rehabilitation and assist in building operational frameworks for the introduction of out-of-pocket treatments.

4. Promoting Educational and Awareness Activities

Through seminars and webinars, the partnership will conduct outreach activities aimed at medical institutions. Additionally, efforts will be made to support the integration and establishment of these practices within service teams.

Significance of the Partnership

This initiative aims to create a new medical ecosystem that:

• - Expands treatment options and enriches medical service structures for healthcare institutions.
• - Establishes new roles and career paths for physiotherapists.
• - Improves patient access to higher-quality treatments.

Through appropriate dissemination of out-of-pocket treatments, the partnership also aims to complement diverse medical needs and contribute to a sustainable healthcare provision.

Roles of the Partner Companies

Cellsource: Focused on providing medical technologies, research data, and support for dissemination in medical institutions.

C-FORTE: Responsible for operationalizing the association, developing educational curriculums and certification systems, along with providing consulting services for medical institutions and supporting on-the-ground implementation.

Future Prospects

Through this collaboration, both companies plan to gradually launch projects by April 2026, with a goal to extend to medical institutions nationwide. Ultimately, the partnership aims to establish an effective framework for delivering regenerative medicine leveraging the expertise of physiotherapists, making this innovative healthcare option more accessible to society.

Cellsource is committed to promoting the social implementation of regenerative medicine and creating new values in healthcare.