Embryonic stem cell research is one of the most promising areas of science today. Learn where embryonic stem cells come from, how they grow, what they can do and what promise they hold. For more than 20 years, adult stem cells have been used in peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, a technology that has virtually replaced bone marrow transplants in the treatment of leukemia and lymphoma.

This Mini-Medical School session was held Nov. 28, 2006. You’ll hear from UNMC’s scientists about the promise and the limitations of adult stem cells.

• Watch the presentations: A Primer and Separating Fact from Fiction.

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  These URLs are shown at the end of the program.

  National Academies publication:
  http://dels.nas.edu/bls/stemcells/docs/stem-cell-low.pdf

  Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) publication:
  https://services.aamc.org/Publications/showfile.cfm?file=version73.pdf&prd_id=169&prv_id=200&pdf_id=73
   

• Watch the panel discussion
  
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• Download and print the program, and handouts for A Primer, Separating Fact from Fiction

Program

6:30	Welcome
6:35	A Primer
	Thomas Rosenquist, Ph.D.
6:45	Separating Fact from Fiction
	David Crouse, Ph.D.
7:30	Break
7:45	Panel Discussion:
	Your Questions Answered

	Thomas Rosenquist, Ph.D. Vice Chancellor for Research, UNMC Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy
	David Crouse, Ph.D. Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Executive Associate Dean for Graduate Studies Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy

	Marcel DeVetten, M.D. Assistant Professor, Medicine, in Hematology and Oncology, UNMC Director, Bone Marrow Transplant Program Medical Director, Cancer Clinical Trials Office
	Ira Fox, M.D. Charles W. McLaughlin Professor of Surgery Senior Associate Dean for Research, College of Medicine
	Anuja Ghorpade, Ph.D. Associate Professor, Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience; Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and Pathology/Microbiology
	Stephen Rennard, M.D. Larson Professor of Medicine, Pulmonary and Critical Care, UNMC Director, Nebraska Office of Tobacco Control and Research
	Angie Rizzino, Ph.D. Professor, Eppley Institute Professor, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; and Pathology/Microbiology
	J. Graham Sharp, Ph.D. Professor, Genetics, Cell Biology and Anatomy