PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 23, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- StemCells, Inc. (Nasdaq:STEM) announced today that Martin McGlynn, President and CEO, and Stephen Huhn, M.D., Vice President and Head of CNS Program, have each been invited to speak at the 6th Annual New York Stem Cell Summit to be held March 1 at Bridgewaters in New York City. This year's Summit will feature a panel discussion on stem cell approaches to spinal cord injury, including the Company's recently authorized Phase I/II clinical trial of its HuCNS-SC® cells (purified human neural stem cells) in chronic spinal cord injury, which will be conducted in Switzerland.