ROCKVILLE, Md., May 10 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: CUR) CEO and President, Richard Garr, has been invited to present at the Fifth Annual World Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Congress, held May 11-13, in London, UKhttp://www.terrapinn.com/2010/stemcells/index.stm. Neuralstem is currently in a Phase I clinical trial to treat ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig‘s disease) with its spinal cord stem cells.
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Mr. Garr’s talk, at 2:30 on Wednesday, May 12, is entitled “Goals, Challenges and Solutions for Bringing Cell-Based ALS Therapy to the Clinic.” It will address the goals and scientific potential of applying cell therapy to ALS, as well as the challenges and solutions in bringing this treatment to patients.
About Neuralstem, Inc.
Neuralstem’s patented technology enables, for the first time, the ability to produce neural stem cells of the human brain and spinal cord in commercial quantities, and the ability to control the differentiation of these cells into mature, physiologically relevant human neurons and glia. The company is targeting major central nervous system diseases including: Ischemic Spastic Paraplegia, Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury, Huntington‘s disease and Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), often referred to as Lou Gehrig‘s disease. ALS is a progressive fatal neurodegenerative disease that affects nerve cells in the brain, leading to the degeneration and death of the motor neurons in the spinal cord that control muscle movement. Neuralstem is in a Phase I clinical trial to treat ALS. For more information, please go to www.neuralstem.com.
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