Science Writers in NY
Researchers have long imagined treating human diseases by replacing damaged cells with stem cells--embryonic cells from which other cells develop. The approach raises both ethical and technical questions: where do you get the cells? How do you manipulate them into becoming the right sort of adult cell? SWINY EVENT
Thursday, October 21, 1999 6:30 PM
Neural Stem Cells and the Treatment of Neurological Disease
On Thursday, October 21, Dr. Viviane Tabar, of the NIH and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, will explain how she and her colleagues raised neural stem cells in the laboratory and used them to treat neurological disease in an animal model. The report of the research, which appeared in last year's Nature Neuroscience, is among the journal's 10 most-cited papers.
The evening begins at 6:30 PM with light supper and drinks.
Dr. Tabar's talk begins at 7:30 PMPlace:
The Rockefeller University, Room 1B Caspary
1230 York Avenue (at East 66th St.)Cost:
$15 for SWINY members; $17 for nonmembers; $12 for students (must show current student ID).SWINY membership is $15; join on the 21st and get the members' rate.RSVP:
by Monday, October 18 to Jo Ann Gutin, jgutin8917@aol.com . Please remember to let her know if you are a SWINY member, non-member or student. Please note: If you RSVP and do not attend, you are expected to please pay anyway.Directions:
Subway: No. 6 train to Hunter College/68th Street stop, walk east to York Avenue. Bus: M68 (last stop is Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center at 68th Street and York Avenue) or M31 (67th Street and York Avenue). There is no parking on campus. Parking may be available on York Avenue or in garages in the neighborhood.