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Diabetes: Progress and Promise in Stem Cell Research

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  • Post published:March 8, 2012
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CIRM has funded the Diabetes Disease Team led by scientists at ViaCyte, Inc., UCSF, and the La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology. This team aims to bring an embryonic…

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Cures through Collaboration: Funding a Team Approach to Disease Research

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  • Post published:May 11, 2011
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Both the Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation (GJCF) and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) share a similar vision for funding a team approach to disease research. When Victoria Jackson's daughter,…

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Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS): Progress and Promise in Stem Cell Research

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  • Post published:October 29, 2010
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CIRM has funded the ALS Disease Team led by scientists at who aim to bring a human embryonic stem cell based ALS therapy to clinical trials within four years. Amyotrophic…

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Progress and Promise in Spinal Cord Injury

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  • Post published:September 13, 2010
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The world's first human embryonic stem cell-based clinical trial has been approved for the treatment of spinal cord injury. Oswald Steward, Director of the Reeve-Irvine Research Center at UC Irvine…

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Progress and Promise in HIV/AIDS

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  • Post published:June 21, 2010
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CIRM has funded two HIV/AIDS Disease Teams led by scientists at UCLA and the City of Hope who are focused on stem cell transplant strategies that promise a long lasting…

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Huntington’s Disease: Progress and Promise in Stem Cell Research

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  • Post published:June 21, 2010
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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…

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Progress and Promise in Macular Degeneration

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  • Post published:October 27, 2009
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Macular degeneration is a disease associated with aging that gradually destroys sharp central vision, making it impossible to see faces, to read, or to drive. No therapy exists for the…

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Progress and Promise in Parkinson’s

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  • Post published:August 27, 2009
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Parkinson's disease is a neurodegenerative disease that affects nearly a million people in the United States. The symptoms include tremors, slow movement, muscle rigidity and less facial expression. No cure…

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Progress and Promise in Leukemia

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  • Post published:June 18, 2009
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Myeloid proliferative diseases are life threatening blood disorders that can lead to acute leukemia. Using stem cells, the laboratory of Dr. Catriona Jamieson showed that a specific small molecule could…

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