Stem cell training program to make its Stan...( STANFORD Calif. - For the first time e...)

STANFORD, Calif. - For the first time ever, an advanced training program that teaches how to create and maintain embryonic stem cell lines will be offered outside of the University of Pittsburgh, where it originated in 2003. The weeklong course on these all-purpose cells, which can develop into any of the tissue in the adult body, will run June 15-23 at the James H. Clark Center at the Stanford University School of Medicine.

Among the many stem cell luminaries participating in the event will be one of the most sought-after speakers in the field: Woo-Suk Hwang, PhD, of Seoul National University, who led the research team that recently succeeded in creating 11 new stem cell lines from cloned embryos, will lecture June 17 at 8 a.m., in addition to helping to teach some of the laboratory seminars. The results of Hwang's work stunned the scientific community when it was published in the May 19 issue of Science, prompting front-page stories in the New York Times, Washington Post and other newspapers.

Also featured in the program is Ian Wilmut, PhD, of the Roslin Institute near Edinburgh, Scotland, who led the effort to clone Dolly the sheep. He will speak June 21 at 8 a.m.

These and other morning lectures in the course are open to the public, as seating permits. The afternoon laboratory modules are restricted to the 20 scientists who are enrolled in the program. In addition to the lectures and lab sessions, Robert Klein, the chair of California's newly established stem cell institute, will speak at 8 p.m. June 18 at a banquet for the program participants.

This training course comes west as researchers in California are flocking to enter the field of stem cell research-spurred by the promise of $3 billion in state funds from Proposition 71 and the belief that someday treatments for a host of diseases will involve using these cells to replace the damaged adult cells.

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Contact: Michelle Brandt
mbrandt@stanford.edu
650-723-0272
Stanford University Medical Center
14-Jun-2005

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