This news is so exciting! Thank you Girija for sharing with us your impressions of the Scripp’s clinic. Many PWP have spent countless hours over the last 10+ years, defending and protecting stem cell research and advocating for its funding. Now with the use of IPS cells, the controversy over embryonic stem cell research seems to have died down, and a treatment appears to be close to moving from lab to the clinic . (keeping in mind that the progress with IPS cells depended on knowledge gained from ESCR.) Our gratitude to the brave PWP and researchers who are daring to lead the way. And the fact that patients have all along worked together with the project’s scientists and doctors makes it even sweeter. What can the Parkinson’s community do to help support them re: FDA approval and funding?