Just the FACTs Newsletter – July 2026
Dear Colleagues:
On behalf of FACT Directors, committee leaders and members, inspectors, and our HQ Team, I’m privileged to offer the following updates and comments. I’m confident this issue of Just the Facts will instill and refresh assurance in the hard work and critical thinking of the hundreds of peers and colleagues who work together to advance quality and safety in cellular therapy.
FACT Forward is a phrase increasingly referenced throughout our organization and certainly was top of mind during the recent in-person Board of Directors meeting in Nashville. It represents FACT’s commitment to a) continual improvement in our operations and services, b) advancement of our four strategic initiatives, c) organizational evolution, and d) foresight thinking and planning within the Board. Throughout all these, we continue to invite and value input and feedback from all stakeholders in our field—and are placing renewed energy in doing so. (Never hesitate to contact me or FACT’s CEO, David Schmahl, in this spirit.)
In the coming months, you’ll see a commitment to critically examining and improving the workflow, technologies and systems, and user experiences surrounding the development and publication of our Standards and the administration of our voluntary accreditation pathways. This work will incorporate voices of longstanding stakeholders served by us as well as those that are rapidly emerging.
In a similar vein, we feature spotlights within this newsletter on actions supporting our imperative of helping expand eligible patient access to safe and quality-based cellular therapy closer to home. These are proof points behind our belief that such therapies can and should be safely administered in new settings in addition to historically traditional provider settings.
We all recognize the accelerating speed of the science in our field. It’s our collective duty to do our very best to be at pace with this, to ensure our patients receive the very best possible care. Our patients are the overall driver behind FACT Forward, and I’m grateful for the collective efforts of hundreds of colleagues working together with them in mind.
Sincerely,
Navneet Majhail, MD
FACT President
