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