{"62742":{"#nid":"62742","#data":{"type":"news","title":"State Labs on Cutting Edge","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EGeorgia\u0027s small community of cutting-edge stem cell researchers got a boost this month when the first-ever trial testing a human embryonic stem cell therapy began at Atlanta\u0027s Shepherd Center.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhen it comes to stem cell research, California and Massachusetts lead the nation with hot-shot scientists and well-funded laboratories. But Georgia has its own stable of scientists working on the stem cell frontier, and the groundbreaking experiment launched on Peachtree Street could help raise the profile of Georgia\u0027s stem cell efforts.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EEmory University, Georgia Tech and the University of Georgia all have scientists conducting advanced stem cell research. And the Shepherd Center can now boast that it is the first site in the world to test the safety of a treatment that scientists hope will someday help paralyzed patients walk again.\n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0022Shepherd has now established their own precedent for running a stem cell-based clinical trial and that level of experience and expertise will be coveted,\u0022 said Hans Keirstead, a neuroscientist at the University of California Irvine who pioneered the therapy being tested in the trial. \u0022Absolutely, they will have a real leg up on the rest of the world.\u0022 \n\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0027http:\/\/www6.lexisnexis.com\/publisher\/EndUser?Action=UserDisplayFullDocument\u0026amp;orgId=574\u0026amp;topicId=100020422\u0026amp;docId=l:1284069566\u0026amp;isRss=true\u0027\u003ERead Full Article\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"Georgia\u0027s small community of cutting-edge stem cell researchers got a boost this month when the first-ever trial testing a human embryonic stem cell therapy began at Atlanta\u0027s Shepherd Center.\n\nWhen it comes to stem cell research, California and Massachusetts lead the nation with hot-shot scientists and well-funded laboratories. But Georgia has its own stable of scientists working on the stem cell frontier, and the groundbreaking experiment launched on Peachtree Street could help raise the profile of Georgia\u0027s stem cell efforts.","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"State Labs on Cutting Edge"}],"uid":"27349","created_gmt":"2010-10-18 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:07:46","author":"Floyd Wood","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2010-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2010-10-18T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1292","name":"Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience (IBB)"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"},{"id":"140","name":"Cancer Research"},{"id":"141","name":"Chemistry and Chemical Engineering"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"},{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"146","name":"Life Sciences and Biology"},{"id":"149","name":"Nanotechnology and Nanoscience"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"150","name":"Physics and Physical Sciences"}],"keywords":[{"id":"109","name":"Georgia Tech"},{"id":"1487","name":"GTEC"},{"id":"248","name":"IBB"},{"id":"167130","name":"Stem Cells"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EFloyd Wood\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIBB\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=fwood3\u0022\u003EContact Floyd Wood\u003C\/a\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["floyd.wood@ibb.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}