Brain Tumors: Advancing Stem Cell Therapies – 2011 CIRM Grantee Meeting – Video

Posted: February 22, 2012 at 6:11 am



09-11-2011 11:26 Karen Aboody speaks at the 2011 CIRM Grantee Meeting about the developing a stem cell-based clinical trial for malignant brain tumors. Dr. Aboody and her team at the City of Hope Hospital medical center in Duarte, have been funded by CIRM to create a human neural cell line with the ability to target brain tumor cells and deliver a powerful chemotherapeutic agent selectively at tumor sites, effectively destroying invasive glioma cells while sparing normal tissues.

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Brain Tumors: Advancing Stem Cell Therapies - 2011 CIRM Grantee Meeting - Video

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