PERTH, Australia – Belgium's Tigenix NV licensed intellectual property from Australian stem cell company Mesoblast Ltd. the same day it announced approval of the EU's first allogeneic stem cell therapy. The deal supported Tigenix's global commercialization of the adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cell product, Cx601, for the local treatment of fistulae for Crohn's disease. (See BioWorld, Dec. 18, 2017.)