Video Topic: Public Seminars
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