Center for Human Cell Therapy’s 3rd Annual Symposium: From Stem Cells to Motor Neurons: Novel Approaches to Treating Motor Neuron Disease and Spinal Injury
(Basic Science)
General
Date: Wednesday 10/3/2007
From Today: 5 Day(s)
Time: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Room: Amphitheater
Organizer: Kari Thostenson ( info@chct.org )

Notes: Center for Human Cell Therapy’s 3rd Annual Symposium:
From Stem Cells to Motor Neurons: Novel Approaches to Treating Motor Neuron Disease and Spinal Injury.

Date: October 3rd, 2007
When: 3:00-4:30pm, Reception to Follow
Where: The New Research Building in the Amphitheater at
77 Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston MA, 02115

Request for RSVP’s will follow. If you would like to RSVP now, please contact info@chct.org.



Featuring Guest Speakers:

"Building or Repairing a Brain is Complex; Assembly Instructions Required: Molecular Development of Corticospinal and Other Forebrain Projection Neurons"

Jeffrey Macklis, M.D., D.HST.
Professor, Neurology, Neuroscience, and Neurosurgery
Professor, Department of Generative Biology
Program Head, Neuroscience/Nervous System Diseases,
Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Director, Center for Nervous System Repair
Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard Medical School
Harvard University



“Stem Cells and Spinal Cord Disorders”

Douglas Kerr, M.D., Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology, Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
Director of the Johns Hopkins Transverse Myelitis Center
The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Department of Neurology
The Johns Hopkins University



“Interrogating Disease with Nuclear Transfer and Embryonic Stem Cells”

Kevin Eggan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Molecular and Cellular Biology
Assistant Investigator of the Stowers Medical Institute
Principal Investigator of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute
Harvard University


Harvard Medical School Conference Center (map)

Address: 77 Avenue Louis Pasteur
Boston, MA 02115

Phone: (617) 432-1000


http://apps.dfhcc.harvard.edu/calend...ance=2007-10-3

Stem cell research: Does the promise outweigh the risk?
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The Canadian Museum of Nature is holding a Café scientifique on October 2 on stem cell research - does the promise outweigh the risk? The discussion will take place at the Fox and Feather Pub. 238 Elgin St., beginning at 6:00 p.m.



Science café looks at stem cell research

The first of the Canadian Museum of Nature's 2007-08 Café scientifique series gets under way Tuesday, October 2 with the topic: Stem cell research - does the promise outweigh the risk?

Curing disease and repairing the body, extending our lives, perhaps indefinitely – with promises like these, could stem cell research be the life-time warranty for our bodies? But at what cost? Join our guest experts, Dr. Ilona Skerjanc, a stem cell researcher at the University of Ottawa, and Nigel Van Loan, Board member of ALS Canada who will talk about the hopes for stem cell research with respect to Lou Gehrig's Disease.

Café scientifique provides a forum where you can explore the latest ideas in science and technology over a cup of coffee or a glass of wine.

The discussion will take place at the Fox and Feather Pub at 238 Elgin Street, beginning at 6:00 p.m. Admission is free but there is a charge for food and drinks. Seating is on a first come basis.

For more information, call 613-566-4791.
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