Disease Focus: Neurological Disorders
Ileana Slavin, Scripps – CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch
Jacqueline Ward, UCSD – CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch
Roberta Brinton – CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch
Wange Lu, USC – CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch
Produced by the University of Southern California
Yi Eve Sun, UCLA – CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch 1
Marius Wernig, Stanford – CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch
Min Zhao, UC Davis – CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch
Video: Stem Cell Banking – The Perspective of an iPS Donor Family
“Your twin daughters have an extremely rare, fatal disease called Niemann Pick Type C and there’s nothing you can do for them”. Those were the devastating words that Chris Hempel and her husband first heard in 2007. Rather than just give in to this fate, the Hempels are proactively engaging researchers to try to save […]
Cures through Collaboration: Funding a Team Approach to Disease Research
Both the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation (GJCF) and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) share a similar vision for funding a team approach to disease research. When Victoria Jackson’s daughter, Ali, was diagnosed with NMO – a rare incurable disease that can lead to blindness, paralysis and even death – Jackson created the GJCF and […]
UC-Irvine’s Stem Cell Program and Stem Cell Basics
(Part 1 of 7) Peter Donovan, director of UC-Irvine’s Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, spoke at “Synapses Firing: Connections Made”, a patient advocacy event hosted by the California stem cell funding agency (CIRM). The 100+ people in attendance heard from patient advocates about living with neurodegenerative disease and from scientists about recent […]