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  • Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope and Karolinska Institute Join as Co-Organizers of World Stem Cell Summit

    Beckman Research Institute at City of Hope and the Karolinska Institute (Stockholm, Sweden) are now co-organizers of the 8th annual World Stem Cell Summit taking place at the Palm Beach County Convention Center, December 3-5, 2012.

  • UM’s Stem Cell and Diabetes Research Institutes Co-Sponsor World Stem Cell Summit

    The Miller School’s Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute and Diabetes Research Institute will be taking the lead on the world stage of stem cell research, uniting with the Genetics Policy Institute to co-sponsor and organize the world’s largest and most comprehensive multi-track interdisciplinary stem cell conference.

  • Stem cell group, Genetics Policy Institute, plans summit in WPB next year

    Whether cloning human babies or baby sheep, the concept of using adult or embryonic stem cells to produce another being or to heal a sick one is highly controversial.

    But that didn’t stop Bernard Siegel from ditching his 30-year law career to found and direct the Genetics Policy Institute, which is staging its eighth annual World Stem Cell Summit next December in West Palm Beach.

  • West Palm Beach, FL to Host 8th Annual World Stem Cell Summit December 3-5, 2012

    Co-Organizers of Largest Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Meeting Include: Genetics Policy Institute; Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine; and Diabetes Research Institute

  • Tommy Thompson pushes for focus on adult stem cells

    A decade after he helped persuade a president to allow funding of some embryonic stem cell research, Tommy Thompson, the former Wisconsin governor and presumptive U.S. Senate candidate, paid a visit to the Vatican on Wednesday to deliver a very different message.

    In Rome, Thompson, who is Roman Catholic, portrayed himself as a strong proponent of adult stem cells - cells that aren't culled from embryos - while appearing to brush aside the embryonic stem cell research he once defended.

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  • Former Intel chief fights for medical innovation

    Andy Grove led Intel to spectacular success by developing a newer, faster and better product every year. If only medicines could be developed with the same kind of urgency and efficiency that spawned the computer revolution. That is Grove's dream. A Silicon Valley pioneer-turned-medical activist, Grove, 75, is afflicted with Parkinson's disease. His worsening tremors fuel an impatience, offering daily reminders of the need to speed innovation into fatal neurodegenerative conditions.

  • World Stem Cell Summit comes to Pasadena

    PASADENA - The World Stem Cell Summit, now in its seventh year, will kick off three days of networking and seminars on Monday at the Pasadena Convention Center in hopes of spurring progress and investment in the emerging industry.  The event promises more than 150 top international speakers and 50 hours of programming with industry leaders from science, pharmaceuticals, business, policy, ethics, law and more.

  • Athersys CEO to Deliver Keynote Address at World Stem Cell Summit 2011

    Athersys Inc. (Nasdaq: ATHX), a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing an innovative stem cell platform, similar to companies like Mesoblast (MSB: ASX), Osiris (Nasdaq: OSIR) and ThermoGenesis Corp (Nasdaq: KOOL), recently announced that its CEO would deliver the keynote address at the World Stem Cell Summit 2011.

  • StemCells, Inc. to Feature at 2011 World Stem Cell Summit

    Speakers to Address the Science, Technology and Clinical Development of the Company's Human Neural Stem Cell Platform