Standardising protocols for the differentiation and integration of human pluripotent stem cell-derived neural transplants in Parkinson's disease

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/GNT1102704

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Clinical trials have shown that transplanting dopamine neurons (specific nerve cells) into the brain of Parkinson’s disease patients can improve symptoms. Trials use fetal tissue for implantation, which is unsustainable and highly variable. This proposal will examine stem cells as an alternative. We will establish a reliable protocol to instruct human stem cells to become dopamine neurons, develop methods to select these cells and, examine the integration of these transplanted cells in the brain

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2016

End Date: 01-01-2019

Funding Scheme: Project Grants

Funding Amount: $987,664.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Central Nervous System

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Parkinson disease | dopamine | neural plasticity | neural transplantation | stem cells

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