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Featured Speaker: Arnold Kriegstein

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Arnold KriegsteinPlenary Discussion
How Stem Cells are Transforming Medicine - ISSCR Perspectives
Monday October 3, 2011 | 9:00-10:30

Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD
Director, Ely and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research
Department of Neurology
University of California, San Francisco
San Francisco, California

Arnold Kriegstein, MD, PhD is the Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research and uses rodent models to study how embryonic neural stem and progenitor cells produce neurons. He studies developmental brain disorders such as autism and explores the application of progenitor cell grafts to the treatment of Parkinson’s disease.