Disease Focus: Spinal Cord Injury

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Bridges Trainee Meeting Keynote: Geron’s Embryonic Stem Cell Trial for Spinal Cord Injury

Dr. Jane Lebkowski, former executive vice president and chief scientific officer at Geron Corporation, gave the keynote address for the 2011 CIRM Bridges Trainee Meeting held July 7-8 in Burlingame, California. Geron began the first clinical trial in the world using human embryonic stem cells. The trial was testing the cells as a potential therapy […]

Progress and Promise in Spinal Cord Injury

The world’s first human embryonic stem cell-based clinical trial has been approved for the treatment of spinal cord injury. Oswald Steward, Director of the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at UC Irvine and member of the CIRM Governing Board, discusses the pioneering work that led to the clinical trial and Roman Reed gives a personal perspective of […]