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                  Current Clinical Collaborators:
                  1. Jose Abdenur, MD, Chief, Division of Metabolic Genetics, Children's
                    Hospital of Orange County, Orange , CA 
                  2. Nick Anas, MD, Chief, Division of Pediatric Intensive Care, Children's
                    Hospital of Orange County, Orange , CA 
                  3. Bruce Barshop, MD, PhD, Co-Director, Biochemical Genetics Laboratory,
                    Department of Pediatrics; Assistant Director, Pediatric Pharmacology
                    Research Unit; Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Pediatrics,
                    University of California, San Diego, CA 
                  4. John Cleary, MD, Division of Pulmonology and Neonatology, Children's
                    Hospital of Orange County, Orange , CA 
                  5. Dawn Darling, MD, Assistant Clinical Professor, Division of Neonatology,
                    School of Medicine , University of California , San Diego , CA 
                  6. Gregory Evans, MD, Professor & Chief/Division of Plastic Surgery --
                    Professor of Surgery, Center for Biomedical Engineering, University of
                    California , Irvine 
                  7. Sidney Gospe, MD, Sarkowsky Professor and Division Head, Pediatric
                    Neurology, Departments of Neurology and Pediatrics, School of Medicine,
                    University of Washington, Seattle, WA 
                  8. Claudia Greco, MD, Associate Physician, Department of Pathology
                    (Neuropathology), School of Medicine , University of California , Davis , CA 
                  9.               Rick Harrison, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics and
                    Co-Director, Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital, School of
                    Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 
                  10. Thomas Heinz, MD, Chairman, Department of Pathology, Saint Joseph
                    Hospital and Children's Hospital of Orange County, Orange, CA 
                  11. Kenneth Kaye, MD, Medical Director, Blood Bank and Tissue Banking,
                    Mission Hospital and Children's Hospital at Mission , Mission Viejo , CA 
                  12. Robert Naviaux, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor In Residence, Pediatrics,
                    Biochemical Genetics and Metabolism; Co-director, The Mitochondrial and
                    Metabolic Disease Center (MMDC); Co-director, The Molecular Diagnostic
                    Laboratory, MMDC, School of Medicine, University of California, San Diego,
                    CA 
                  13. Steven Romansky, MD, Clinical Professor of Pathology, College of
                    Medicine, University of California, Irvine; Pathologist, Long Beach Memorial
                    Medical Center 
                  14. Robert Steiner, MD, Associate Professor of Pediatrics & Molecular and
                    Medical Genetics, Head: Division of Metabolism, Oregon Health & Sciences
                    University , Portland , OR 
                  Current Research Collaborators: 
                  1. Hava Avraham, PhD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess
                    Medical Center, Harvard University, Boston, MA 'Molecular biology of brain
                    specific nuclear restricted protein'' 
                  2. Steven Back, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics
                    (Neurology), Oregon Health and Sciences University , Portland , OR
                    'Transplantation of ovine stem cells in a sheep model of periventricular
                    leukomalacia'' 
                  3.  Peter Bryant, PhD, Professor and Director of the Molecular Biology,
                    Genetics and Biochemistry Training Program, School of Biological Sciences ,
                    University of California , Irvine , CA 'Asymmetric cell division in human
                    neural stem cells''  
                  4. Melissa Carpenter, PhD, Principal Investigator, Stem Cell Biology and
                    Regenerative Medicine, The Robarts Research Institute, London, Ontario,
                    Canada 'Determination of epigenetic differences in human embryonic stem
                    cell lines'' 
                  5.  K.V. Chalam, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of
                    Ophthalmology, University of Florida, Jacksonville, Florida Differentiation
                    of human neural stem cells into photoreceptors''  
                  6. Jerold Chun, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Molecular Biology, The
                    Helen L. Dorris Child & Adolescent Neuropsychiatric Disorder Institute, The
                    Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 'Aneuploidies in the Developing
                    Nervous System'' 
                  7. Stephen J. Crocker, Ph.D., Department of Neuropharmacology, The Scripps
                    Research Institute, La Jolla, CA 'Temporin Expression as a Regulator of
                    Oligodendrocyte Differentiation'' 
                  8.  Jean de Vellis, PhD, Director, Mental Retardation Research Center,
                    UCLA, Los Angeles, CA 'Generation of oligodendrocytes form human neural
                    stem cells''  
                  9.  Steven Dewhurst, PhD, Professor, Department of Microbiology and
                    Immunology, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York HIV
                    infection of human neural stem cells''  
                  10.  Lisa Flanagan, PhD, Assistant Research Biologist, Department of
                    Pathology, College of Medicine, University of California, Irvine, Irvine, CA
                    'Participation of the extracellular matrix in the proliferation, migration,
                    and differentiation of human neural stem cells''  
                  11.  Lee Fortunato, PhD, Assistant. Professor, University of Idaho ,
                    Department. of Microbiology, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Moscow , ID
                    'Interaction of Human Cytomegalovirus with Cells in the Developing Fetal
                    Brain'' 
                  12. Vittorio Gallo, PhD, Director, Center for Neuroscience Research,
                    Children's National Medical Center , Washington , DC 'Transplantation of
                    human neural stem cells in animal models of stroke'' 
                  13. Paul Hagerman, MD, PhD, Professor, Department of Biological Chemistry,
                    School of Medicine, University of California, Davis 'Molecular mechanisms
                    of FMRP dysregulation in Fragile X and FXTAS'' 
                  14.  Carolyn Horrocks, PhD, Director of Cell Development, NeuroNova AB,
                    Stockholm, Sweden Generation of clinically useful neural stem cells from
                    human brain biopsy tissue''  
                  15.  Samie Jaffrey, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of
                    Pharmacology, Cornell University, New York, New York Alterations of mRNA
                    transcription in Fragile X''  
                  16. Noo Li Jeon, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Chemical
                    Engineering and Materials Sciences, The Henry Samueli School of Engineering,
                    University of California, Irvine, CA "Human neural stem cell growth and
                    differentiation in a gradient-generating microfluidic device" 
                  17.  Michael Joiner, PhD, Professor, Department of Radiation Oncology,
                    Wayne State University , Detroit , MI The radiation response of human
                    neural stem cells''  
                  18. Henry J. Klassen, MD, PhD, Senior Scientist, Stem Cell Research,
                    Neuroscience Laboratories, Children's Hospital of Orange County Research
                    Institute 'Transplantation of retinal and neural stem cells in retinal
                    disease and injury'' 
                  19. Abraham Lee, PhD, Professor, Department of Biomedical Engineering, The
                    Henry Samueli School of Engineering, University of California, Irvine, CA
                    "Characterization of neural cells for cell sorting using flow induced
                    electrical admittance spectra in microfluidics" 
                  20. Jeanne Loring, PhD, Adjunct Associate Professor, Stem Cells and
                    Regeneration Program, The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, CA 'Gene expression
                    analysis in human stem cells'' 
                  21. Franz-Josef Muller, MD, PhD , Germany 'Pro- and anti-migratory
                    chemokines in the development of the nervous system'' 
                  22. Karin Narfstrőm, PhD, Department of Veterinary Medicine and Surgery,
                    University of Missouri-Columbia, MO 'Feline neural stem cells in a cat
                    model of retinal degeneration'' 
                  23. Diane K. O'Dowd, PhD, Professor, Departments of Anatomy and Neurobiology
                    and Developmental and Cell Biology, College of Medicine and School of
                    Biological Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA
                    'Electrophysiology in human neural stem cells'' 
                  24. Malla Padidam, PhD, Director, Functional Genomics, RheoGene, Inc.,
                    Norristown , PA 'Adenovirus transduction of human neural stem cells'' 
                  25. Theo Palmer, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurosurgery,
                    Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 'Participation of the
                    NOTCH pathway in the differentiation of human neural stem cells'' 
                  26.  Roger Prather, PhD, Professor, Department of Veterinary Medicine,
                    University of Missouri, MO 'Porcine neural stem cells from the transgenic
                    pig'' 
                  27. Stevens K. Rehen, PhD, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de
                    Janeiro, Brazil 'Aneuploidies in human embryonic and neural stem cells'' 
                  28. Gerald Schatten, PhD, Director, Pittsburgh Development Center,
                    Magee-Women's Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA 'Neural stem cells from the
                    non-human primate'' 
                  29.  Stuart Schreiber, PhD, Chair, Department of Chemistry and Chemical
                    Biology, The Broad Institute, Harvard University, Boston, MA
                    'High-throughput small molecule screening with human neural stem cells''  
                  30. Lamya Shihabuddin, PhD, Section Leader, Neural Regeneration, Genzyme
                    Pharmaceuticals, Framingham, MA 'Transplantation of human neural stem cells
                    in animal models of mucopolysaccharidosis'' 
                  31. Evan Snyder, MD, PhD, Director, Stem Cells and Regeneration Program, The
                    Burnham Institute, La Jolla , CA 'Transplantation of human neural stem
                    cells in animal models of gangliosidosis'' 
                  32. Flora Tassone, PhD, Assistant Research Biochemist, Department of
                    Biological Chemistry, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis,
                    CA 'Molecular biology of FMRP dysregulation in Fragile X syndrome and
                    FXTAS'' 
                  33. Alexey Terskikh, PhD, Assistant Professor, Stem Cells and Regeneration
                    Program, The Burnham Institute, La Jolla, CA 'In vitro and in vivo
                    comparisons of human neural stem cells and neuralized human embryonic stem
                    cells'' 
                  34. Douglas C. Wallace, PhD, Director, Center for Molecular and
                    Mitochondrial Medicine and Genetics, University of California , Irvine
                    'Application of cybrid technology to genomic replacement in human neural
                    and embryonic stem cells'' 
                  35. Michael Young, PhD, Assistant Professor, department of Ophthalmology,
                    Harvard medical School, Boston , MA 'Retinal and neural stem cells in the
                    treatment of large animal models of retinal disease and injury'' 
                  36.  Kyuson Yun, PhD, Assistant Professor, Dartmouth University Medical
                    Center , Lebanon , New Hampshire Transcription factors in neural stem cell
                    tumorigenesis''  
                  37.  W. Michael Zawada, PhD, Associate Professor, Clinical Pharmacology
                    and Toxicology, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO
                    'Effect of reactive oxygen species on the immunology of human neural stem
                    cells'' 
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