PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEM) announced today that a paper regarding the efficacy of transplanting human neural stem cells in an animal model of retinal degeneration will be presented at the Association for Research in Vision and Opthalmology (ARVO) 2009 Annual Meeting scheduled for May 3-7, 2009 in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. This study was conducted by Drs. Raymond Lund and Peter Francis, both researchers and professors at the Casey Eye Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, in collaboration with StemCells.
