ROCKVILLE, Md., June 4 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Neuralstem, Inc. (NYSE Amex: CUR) announced that Dr. Eva Feldman, the Principal Investigator of its Phase I clinical trial to treat ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig‘s disease) with its spinal cord stem cells, will present at the inaugural A. Alfred Taubman Forum on Improving Science and Technology Innovation in the United States, on June 8, 2010, at The Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Dr. Feldman, PhD, MD, is the Russell DeJong Professor of Neurology and Director of the ALS Clinic, University of Michigan.
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Dr. Feldman’s 10:00 AM talk will address the importance of medical research at academic centers to keep America at the forefront of innovation, of which the ALS trial is an example. As part of the talk, she will discuss some general aspects of the trial, which will evaluate the safety of Neuralstem’s spinal cord stem cells and the transplantation procedure in up to 18 patients.
For more information on the event, please go to: http://www.brookings.edu/events/2010/0608_science_technology.aspx.
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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