Stem Cells: Fulfilling the Promise – 2011 CIRM Grantee Meeting

*Please note: this video contains graphic images of a disfiguring disease
John Wagner presented the closing scientific talk at the 2011 CIRM Grantee Meeting. Weaving together stories of medical history, literature, bioethics, and his own clinical work, Wagner describes the challenges and promise of stem cell based therapies.

Dr. Wagner is a professor of pediatrics, director of the Division of Hematology-Oncology and Blood and Marrow Transplantation and co-director of the Center for Translational Medicine at the University of Minnesota.