CLEVELAND, Sept. 29, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gil Van Bokkelen, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Athersys, Inc. (Nasdaq:ATHX) and Chairman of the Alliance for Regenerative Medicine based in Washington D.C., will deliver a keynote address during the 7th Annual World Stem Cell Summit in Pasadena, California. His address, entitled "The Transformational Potential of Regenerative Medicine, and How It Will Change Healthcare As We Know It," will be given at 11:15am PDT on Tuesday, October 4, 2011.
