Video Event: Science Writer's Seminar - September 2008
Stem Cell Research Today: Larry Goldstein – CIRM Science Writer’s Seminar
(Part 1 of 9) Larry Goldstein, M.D., spoke at the Scientific Writer’s Seminar, a workshop presented on September 17, 2008 at CIRM headquarters in San Francisco. Goldstein presented an overview of the basic principles and concepts of stem cell biology and stem cell clinical trial development. He has a CIRM Tools and Technologies grant and […]
Blood cells from Embryonic Stem Cells: Cornelis Murre – CIRM Science Writer’s Seminar
Cornelis Murre, Ph.D., spoke at the Scientific Writer’s Seminar, a workshop presented on September 17, 2008 at CIRM headquarters in San Francisco. Murre has a CIRM grant to develop an approach that would allow large-scale production of blood cells from human embryonic cells. Murre is a professor of biology at the University of California, San […]
Stem Cell-Derived Heart Cells: Bruce Conklin – CIRM Science Writer’s Seminar
(Part 3 of 9) Bruce Conklin, M.D., spoke at the Scientific Writer’s Seminar, a workshop presented on September 17, 2008 at CIRM headquarters in San Francisco. Conklin has a CIRM grant to develop a method for screening drugs for toxic effects using stem cells. Conklin is a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular […]
Fat-Derived Stem Cells for Tissue Repair: Michael Longaker – CIRM Science Writer’s Seminar
Michael Longaker, M.D., spoke at the Scientific Writer’s Seminar, a workshop presented on September 17, 2008 at CIRM headquarters in San Francisco. Longaker has a CIRM grant to derive and analyze pluripotent disease specific stem cells that will provide a better understanding of cardiovascular and bone disease. Longaker is a Deane P. and Louise Mitchell […]
Stem Cell Based Diabetes Treatment: Alan Lewis – CIRM Science Writer’s Seminar
Alan Lewis, Ph.D., spoke at the Scientific Writer’s Seminar, a workshop presented on September 17, 2008 at CIRM headquarters in San Francisco. At the time of this presentation Alan Lewis was president and CEO of Novocell (now ViaCyte), a La Jolla-based company that has been developing a potential therapy for diabetes. Viacyte Inc. has four […]
Stem Cell Based Therapies for Blindness: David Hinton – CIRM Science Writer’s Seminar
David Hinton, Ph.D., spoke at the Scientific Writer’s Seminar, a workshop presented on September 17, 2008 at CIRM headquarters in San Francisco. Hinton has a CIRM grant to study the therapeutic potential of retinal pigment epithelial cell lines derived from human embryonic stem cells for retinal degeneration. Hinton is a professor of pathology, neurosurgery, and […]
Getting Stem Cell Therapies Approved: Ann Tsukamoto – CIRM Science Writer’s Seminar
Ann Tsukamoto, Ph.D., spoke at the Scientific Writer’s Seminar, a workshop presented on September 17, 2008 at CIRM headquarters in San Francisco. Tsukamoto is the Chief Operating Officer at Stem Cells, Inc., a Palo Alto based company that, at the time of this video recording, had begun a stem cell based human clinical trial for […]
Biotech Perspectives for Stem Cell Research: Don Francis
Donald Francis, M.D., D.Sc., spoke at the Scientific Writer’s Seminar, a workshop presented on September 17, 2008 at CIRM headquarters in San Francisco. Francis provided a perspective of the current progress in stem cell research by comparing it to the fears and eventual successes of genetic engineering. He also briefly reviewed Irvin Chen’s current research […]
HIV and Stem Cells: Warner Greene – CIRM Science Writer’s Seminar
Warner Greene, M.D., Ph.D., spoke at the Scientific Writer’s Seminar, a workshop presented on September 17, 2008 at CIRM headquarters in San Francisco. Greene, who is the director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology, discussed the implications of this research for possible HIV therapeutics