West LaboratoryThree Dimensional MRI Reconstruction of Stoked Brain
Thursday, October 10, 2013
Three dimensional reconstruction of MRI in stoke brain. Scans captured on a Siemens 1.5 Tesla magnet.
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…
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…
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.
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…