ATLANTA, Ga. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) - The Genetics Policy Institute (GPI) and Regenerative Medicine Foundation (RMF) honored five distinguished leaders last night as the 2015 Stem Cell Action Awards recipients. The honorees were recognized at a gala dinner sponsored by Americans for Cures Foundation on Thursday, December 10th during the 11th annual World Stem Cell Summit at the Hyatt Regency in Atlanta, Georgia.

Cure CP Announces Newest Fundraising Campaign for Groundbreaking Cord Blood Research for Cerebral Palsy

ATLANTA, Ga. - Cure CP, a non-profit organization committed to curing cerebral palsy, is excited to announce its second major fundraising initiative, supporting new pre-clinical studies led by internationally renowned Duke Medicine physician and NIH investigator, Dr. Joanne Kurtzberg. This initiative is being launched on March 25, 2014, the National Awareness Day for Cerebral Palsy in the US. Read more

A Buckhead boy with cerebral palsy is among the first group of children to participate in America’s first clinical trial using each patient’s hip bone marrow stem cells.

As one of the primary fund-raisers and promoters of this trial, CureCP.org is an honored collaborator and is very proud to announce that the first-of-its-kind clinical trial studying two forms of stem cell treatments for children with cerebral palsy (CP) has begun at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) Medical School.