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  • West Lab 2017

    Friday, July 7, 2017

    Check our our “current lab members” page to find out what each of us is up to!

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  • Three Dimensional MRI Reconstruction of Stoked B...

    Thursday, October 10, 2013

    Three dimensional reconstruction of MRI in stoke brain. Scans captured on a Siemens 1.5 Tesla magnet.

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  • Changing the Therapeutic Paradigm of TBI

    Thursday, October 10, 2013

    Millions of people each year suffer from neural injury and disease with traumatic brain injury (TBI) and stroke being chief among them. TBI is common in toddler age…

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  • iPSC-NSCs with potential

    Thursday, October 10, 2013

    Our lab is working with induced pluripotent stem cell-derived neural stem cell lines (HIP-NSCs) in an effort to examine their potential to regenerate damaged brain tissue after a…

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  • Using neural stem cells to study stroke

    Wednesday, October 9, 2013

    We try to understand the extent to which our stem cell lines are able to form functional neural cells in the stroke environment.

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  • Meet our pigs!

    Wednesday, October 9, 2013

    Through pigs like these, we are looking to determine if NSCs can survive and integrate into an injury site within the brain. Someday, we hope this type of…

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  • Stereotaxic Injector System

    Tuesday, October 8, 2013

    Induced pluripotent neural stem cells are transplanted into the penumbra region of the infarct (area of tissue damage) using a stereotaxic injector device.

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  • porcine induced pluripotent stem cells

    Sunday, May 1, 2011

    These cells come in as many colors as there maybe potential cures discovered by their use. Pig iPSCs: POU5F1 (red), SOX2 (green), DNA (blue).

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  • chimeric pigs generated from iPS cells

    Friday, April 1, 2011

    …and 29 chimeric pigs were born into the world. This is the first derivation of live chimeric animals generated from iPS cells in any species outside of the…

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Apr
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Chris Littlejohn Wins 1st Place at 2021 CAES Research Symposium

Congratulations to Chris Littlejohn for winning 1st place at the 2021 CAES Research Symposium for his presentation “Evaluation of Growth Factors on Their Ability to Promote Proliferation and Reduce Apoptosis in Neural Stem Cells.” This was an exciting project evaluating a number of experimental growth factors to enhance the proliferation of neural stem cells. Rapid expansion of neural stem cells for the treatment of neural injury and disease patients is critical to produce enough cells in a timely manner to make them a clinically viable option. What an amazing accomplishment and we look forward to see what you do next!

Feb
26

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Congratulations, Dr. Kelly Scheulin!

Congratulations to Dr. Kelly Scheulin for successfully defending her dissertation and earning her PhD! Her dissertation “Preclinical assessment of functional and structural connectivity in stroke and traumatic brain injury utilizing advanced magnetic resonance imaging” was awe-inspiring. Dr. Scheulin is proud to announce she has accepted a position with a medical communications company, BOLDSCIENCE, as a medical writer based in the Atlanta area. Way to go, Kelly!

Jul
17

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Master Soo Shin!

Congratulations Soo (pictured left)! Soo successfully defended her masters thesis, “An adolescent porcine model of voluntary alcohol consumption exhibits binge drinking and motor deficits in a two bottle choice test”. We are so proud of you!
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