CALGARY, ALBERTA--(Marketwire - April 16, 2008) - Stem Cell Therapeutics Corp. ("SCT") (TSX VENTURE: SSS) is proud to congratulate Dr. Samuel Weiss, Director of the Hotchkiss Brain Institute at the University of Calgary, for receiving the distinguished Gairdner Award. This esteemed award was granted to Dr. Weiss "for his seminal discovery of adult neural stem cells in the mammalian brain and its importance in nerve cell regeneration".
