I've heard rumblings re preclinical prep work w/ the Takashi group at Kyoto University as well, not sure where that's at at the moment.
I randomly found this review, but haven't had a chance to plough thru it yet, but I wouldn't be surprised that the stem cell tech these days makes whatever they used 20 years ago ancient and crude by comparison https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9890289/
Additionally, this was the followup paper that found Lewy bodies developing in the transplanted cells (suggesting some sort of spread/prion-like hypothesis with regards to Lewy bodies/insoluble alpha synuclein)