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(Part 1 of 3) Jeff Bronstein, MD, Ph.D., spoke at the "Spotlight on Parkinson's Disease," an educational event presented at the CIRM Governing Board meeting on May 7, 2008. Bronstein presented an overview of Parkinson's disease and discussed how stem cell research provides hope for finding new Parkinson's disease therapies.

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Parkinson's Disease: Spotlight on Stem Cell Research - Jeff Bronstein

(Part 1 of 3) Jeff Bronstein, MD, Ph.D., spoke at the "Spotlight on Parkinson's Disease," an educational event presented at the CIRM Governing Board meeting on May 7, 2008. Bronstein presented an overview of Parkinson's disease and discussed how stem cell research provides hope for finding new Parkinson's disease therapies.

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Parkinson's Disease: Spotlight on Stem Cell Research - Jeff Bronstein

(Part 2 of 3) Irv Weissman, Ph.D., spoke at the "Spotlight on Basic Research," an educational event presented at the CIRM Governing Board meeting on August 20, 2009. Irv Weissman described how his lab's basic research of the immune system led to the identification of blood-forming stem cells and new therapeutic strategies to treat various blood diseases. He has a CIRM Disease Team grant to develop therapeutic antibodies for targeting human acute myeloid leukemia stem cells.

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Spotlight on Basic Stem Cell Research - Irv Weissman

(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 patient advocacy event hosted by the California stem cell funding agency (CIRM). 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 lead to new treatments

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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 patient advocacy event hosted by the California stem cell funding agency (CIRM). 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 lead to new treatments

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Alzheimer's and Huntington's: Using Stem Cells to Understand and Treat Disease

James Cook is 60 years, suffers from Parkinson and is from the USA James got treated in March 2009 with the hRPE stereotactic Brain injection.

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James, Parkinson's disease, after stem cell treatment at Tiantan Puhua Hospital Beijing