This invention belongs to the field of
regenerative medicine and relates to
cell therapy, specifically providing pluripotent
stem cell-derived RPE cells, formulations, pharmaceutical compositions, reagents, methods, and kits. Obtaining RPE cells by differentiation of iPSCs is achieved by adding small chemical molecules as inhibitors or activators to E6 medium and includes a
neuroectoderm cell induction phase, an RPE
progenitor cell induction phase, an RPE cell
induction phase, and an RPE
cell maturation phase. In this differentiation process, there is no need to manually remove heterogeneous cells with non-RPE-like morphology, and pure RPE cells can be obtained by subculturing.