Everything You Wanted To Know About Stem Cells… But Were Afraid To Ask
Google engEDU
52 min – Jul 31, 2007

Google Tech Talks
July 31, 2007

ABSTRACT

Stem cell technology and the debate surrounding it has generated a great deal of excitement and controversy in recent years. The field is surrounded by misconceptions, hype and yet very significant potential. In this talk we’ll cover: defining what are stem cells really and where do they come from… the differences between embryonic stem cells and ‘adult stem cells’ (i.e. derived from our own bone marrow, fat, umbilical cord blood, placentas and even our kids teeth) and emerging technologies to utilize these cells in powerful and novel ways. We’ll cover current clinical uses of stem cells, ongoing clinical trials in regenerative medicine (i.e. using marrow derived cells to treat heart attacks, vascular disease, stroke and even diabetes), upcoming trials utilizing embryonic stem cells, and some of the likely near term and future applications as well as challenges remaining in order for this field to reach its full potential.

Speaker: Daniel Kraft, MD

Dr. Daniel Kraft will provide an overview of stem cell biology, including embryonic and adult stem cells, their current use in the clinic, and ongoing developments in the push for therapeutic applications utilizing stem cells for use in biomedicine and the evolving field of tissue engineering and regenerative medicine. This talk will include a summary of major stem cell technologies, and related bioengineering and devices.

Daniel Kraft, MD is a physician-scientist at Stanford University Medical School, where his clinical focus is hematology/oncology and stem cell transplantation. He is also on clinical faculty at UCSF on the bone marrow transplant service and is a lecturer for the Stanford Bioengineering program. Daniel graduated cum laude from Brown University, and received his medical degree from Stanford University, where he was also a Howard Hughes Research Fellow, and graduated with honors in research. He went on to complete a combined residency at Harvard in Internal Medicine and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Boston Children’s Hospital, followed by fellowships in hematology/oncology and bone marrow transplantation at Stanford. He is currently funded by the NIH and conducting research in the laboratory of Irv Weissman.
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