Meeting the scientists who are turning their daughter’s cells into a research tool
There’s nothing like a face-to-face meeting to really get to know someone. And when the life of someone you love is in the hands of [...]
Patient Advocate Leads Drive to Add Rare Diseases to CIRM’s Stem Cell Bank
Oakland, CA – Christina Waters is a rare kind of person: creative, compassionate, and committed to creating change. Now she is using those rare talents [...]
Making a deposit in the Bank: using stem cells
For Chris Waters, the motivation behind her move from big pharmaceutical companies and biotech to starting a non-profit organization focused on rare diseases in children [...]
Bridging the divide: stem cell students helping families with rare diseases become partners in research.
Sometimes it’s the simplest things that make the biggest impact. For example, introducing a scientist to a patient can help them drive stem cell research [...]