“Stem Cell Therapies for Heart Failure”
Our multi-institutional program is dedicated to the treatment of heart failure, which has become a leading cause of death in California and the U. S. The high death toll continues…
Huntington’s Disease Team
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a devastating degenerative brain disease with a 1 in 10,000 risk of having a mutation that inevitably leads to death. These numbers do not fully reflect…
STEM CELL GENE THERAPY FOR SICKLE CELL DISEASE
Sickle cell disease (SCD), which results from an inherited mutation in the hemoglobin gene that causes red blood cells to “sickle” under conditions of low oxygen, occurs with a frequency…
{REDACTED} Heart Disease Regenerative Medicine Team Planning Award
The present planning grant application lays the groundwork for a collaborative heart disease regenerative medicine team. We plan to develop sequential preclinical and clinical investigations directed at regenerative stem cell-based…
CIRM Disease Team Planning Award
Children born with sickle cell anemia (SCA), caused by a genetic defect in hemoglobin, have severe anemia and damage to virtually all the body organs: the damage begins in infancy,…
Stem cells for neuroprotection of photoreceptors in retinitis pigmentosa
The targeted disease is retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a severe form of blindness that runs in families. This disease is not common, yet represents an attractive near term target for stem…
Stem Cell-Mediated Oncocidal Therapy of Primary & Metastatic Brain Tumors
Brain tumors (BTs) are incurable, whether they start in the brain or spread there from other sites (e.g., lung, colon, breast, skin). Indeed, the latter situation is even more common…
Develop a cell replacement therapy for Parkinson’s disease using human embryonic stem cells
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a devastating movement disorder caused by the death of dopaminergic neurons (a type of neurons in the central nervous system) present in the midbrain. These neurons…
Stem Cell Therapy for AIDS- Disease Team Planning
RNA interference is a naturally occurring means to block the function of genes in our body. We propose that RNA interference can be used to block HIV-1 infection and its…
Human Stem Cell Approaches to Alzheimers Disease Therapies
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a major health problem in the U.S. with 10% of people over the age of 65 and 50% of people over the age of 85 afflicted…
