What are the Barriers to Cure?
The Frontier of Stem Cell Research for Spinal Cord Injury
World leaders in science and surgery meet to discuss the state of the field.
Watch the Talks
- Philip Horner, PhD, “Human iPSC-Derived Neural Stem Cells: Efficacy and Safety Data from a Chronic Cervical Contusion Model of Spinal Cord Injury”
Presented at the 2012 Spinal Cord Workshop in Massachusetts. - H. Richard Winn, M.D, “Barriers to Translation Research: A Cautionary Tale”
Presented at the 2012 Spinal Cord Workshop in Massachusetts. - Keith Tansey, MD, PhD, “Stem Cells in Spinal Cord Injury: a Medical Physiologists View”
Presented at the 2012 Spinal Cord Workshop in Massachusetts - Wise Young, MD, PhD, “Umbilical cord blood and lithium treatment of chronic spinal cord injury”
Presented at the 2012 Spinal Cord Workshop in Massachusetts. - Hans Keirstead, PhD, “Translation of Stem Cell Based Therapies”
Presented at the 2012 Spinal Cord Workshop in Massachusetts. - Ed Wirth, MD, PhD, “Cell-Based Therapies for SCI: Lessons Learned in Planning and Conducting Two Phase 1 Safety Trials Over the Past 18 Years”
Presented at the 2012 Spinal Cord Workshop in Massachusetts. - Wise Young, MD, PhD, “Lithium Effects on Blood and Brain Stem Cells”
Presented at the Tzu-Chi Hospital in Hualien, Taiwan on April 22-24, 2010 - Dr. Yi Ren, “Control of teratoma after embryonic stem cell transplant”
Presented at the 2010 Workshop in Taiwan. - Dr. Ivar Mendez, “Clinical trial of fetal neural stem cells for Parkinson’s disease”
Presented at the 2010 Workshop in Taiwan - Dr. Hung-Chih Kuo, “Purification and characterization of transplantable…
Presented at the 2010 Workshop in Taiwan. - Dr. Henrich Cheng, “Transplantation of Size-Sieved Stem Cells Compositing with Fibrin Glue After MCAO in Conscious Rat”
Presented at the 2010 Workshop in Taiwan. - Dr. Chia-Ning Shen, “Porphyrin homeostasis maintained by ABCG2 transporter regulates self-renewal of embryonic stem cells and cancer stem cells”
Presented at the 2010 Workshop in Taiwan. - Dah-Ching Ding, “Human umbilical cord mesenchymal stem cells support prolonged expansion of human embryonic stem cells without tumorigenesis”
Presented at the 2010 Workshop in Taiwan. - Alok Sharma, “Clinical trial of bone marrow stem cells in spinal cord injury”
Presented at the 2010 Workshop in Taiwan - “Surgical Viewpoint for Early Spinal Cord Injury” presented by Dr. Tzu-Yung Chen
Presented at the 2010 Workshop in Taiwan. - “Key pathways for totipotent and pluripotent stem cells” presented by Dr. Ann A. Kiessling
Presented at the 2010 Workshop in Taiwan - “Cell Therapy for Spinal Injury: The Surgical Perspective,” presented by Dr. Waisang Poon
Presented at the 2010 Workshop at the University of Georgia. - Wise Young, MD, PhD – Spinal Cord Injury: The Next Generation of Therapies
Presented at the 2009 Workshop at the University of Georgia. - Steve L. Stice, PhD – Neural, Vascular and Osteogenic Regeneration Using Combined Approaches
Presented at the 2009 Workshop at the University of Georgia. - Spinal Cord Workshop 2009 Athens Georgia
News video created at the 2009 Spinal Cord Workshop.