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  • How a childhood condition sparked a career in regenerative medicine April 23, 2025
    As a child, Dongwei Sun underwent a medical treatment that left his lower limbs weak and occasionally numb. “This inspired my dedication to develop biomedical technologies that can prevent, treat, and potentially cure debilitating conditions,” he says. “The idea that we can use stem cells to regrow nerves or repair damaged tissues—like in my own […]
  • Diving into a new era of treatment: A patient’s journey with a groundbreaking epilepsy stem cell therapy April 16, 2025
    In 2007, Justin Graves was working at a SCUBA shop in Louisville, Kentucky, when he had his first epileptic seizure. “SCUBA diving has just been something I’ve loved my whole life,” he said. “My whole family loves it.” Justin had to give up diving as well as his work as a dive instructor, and like […]
  • Filling gaps in federal research funding with a focus on neurological diseases  April 9, 2025
    Over the past 20 years, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has supercharged research in California in ways that have often filled gaps in federal research funding. This has been true since CIRM was founded in 2004, and federal funding for embryonic stem cell research was extremely hard to come by. Now, given current […]

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