Disease Focus: Huntington's Disease
Ningzhe Zhang, Buck Institute – CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch
Leslie Thompson, UC Irvine – CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch
Vicki Wheelock, UC Davis – CIRM Stem Cell #SciencePitch
Huntington’s Advocates Celebrate New Stem Cell Research Funding
This two minute video captures the excitement of the Huntington’s disease patient advocate and research community when the CIRM governing board approved the Disease Team II awards on July 26th, 2012. Among the awardees is UC Davis’ Dr. Vicki Wheelock whose project team aims to use their $19 million grant to bring a stem cell-based […]
Judy Roberson: Patient advocates drive stem cell scientists
Judy Roberson sat down with CIRM at the World Stem Cell Summit to discuss the role patient advocates play in driving stem cell scientists and making the goals a reality. Judy is the past president of the northern California chapter of the Huntington’s Disease Society of America.
Alzheimer’s and Huntington’s – Using Stem Cells to Understand and Treat Disease
(Part 4 of 7) Mathew Mark Blurton-Jones, a professor at UC-Irvine’s Institute for Memory Impairments and Neurological Disorders, spoke at “Synapses Firing: Connections Made”, a CIRM-hosted patient advocacy event. The 100+ people in attendance heard from patient advocates about living with neurodegenerative disease and from scientists about recent progress in stem cell research that may […]
Disease in a Dish – Using Stem Cells to Model Huntington’s Disease and SMA
(Part 6 of 7) Bill Johnston, a Huntington’s disease patient advocate, and Virginia Mattis, a postdoctoral fellow at Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, spoke at “Synapses Firing: Connections Made”, a CIRM-hosted patient advocacy event. The 100+ people in attendance heard from patient advocates about living with neurodegenerative disease and from scientists about recent progress in stem cell […]
Huntington’s Disease: Progress and Promise in Stem Cell Research
Huntington’s disease is an inherited neurodegenerative disorder that typically strikes in a person’s thirties and leads to death about 10 to 15 years later. No effective therapy exists for the disease. Jan Nolta, director of the UC Davis Stem Cell Program and Institute for Regenerative Cures, has a CIRM Early Translational Award to develop stem […]
Spotlight on Huntington’s Disease (2010): Welcoming Remarks
Spotlight on Huntington’s Disease: Welcoming Remarks Robert Klein J.D., and Claire Pomeroy, M.D., M.B.A., gave the welcoming remarks for the “Spotlight on Huntington’s Disease,” an educational event presented at the CIRM Governing Board meeting on March 11, 2010. Klein is chair of the CIRM Governing Board. Pomeroy is Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences […]
Spotlight on Huntington’s Disease (2010): Vicki Wheelock
Spotlight on Huntington’s Disease: Vicki Wheelock Huntington’s disease: New hope from stem cell therapies Vicki Wheelock, M.D., spoke at the “Spotlight on Huntington’s Disease,” an educational event presented at the CIRM Governing Board meeting on March 11, 2010. Wheelock is a clinical professor in the department of neurology within the University of California, Davis Health […]