Geron founder Dr. Michael West Talks Stem Cells on CNBC

January 2009: FDA milestone in stem cell research
Geron announced that it has received FDA approval to proceed with the first-ever human embryonic stem cell studies.

As an accomplished scientist and businessman, and as one of the world's foremost authorities on embryonic stem cell research, Dr. West discusses the significance of this finding for the biotech industry and for the country as a whole. Unlike many other biotech executives, Dr. West discusses the political ramifications, and prospects for science and medicine under the Obama administration.

Dr. West is currently the CEO of BioTime, a biotech company based in Northern California. Dr. West recently issued an open letter to President Barack Obama, signed by over 20 Nobel Laureates, urging repeal of the ban on embryonic stem cell research and development.

Dr. Michael West
Dr. West is the Chief Executive Officer of BioTime, Inc. and Embryome Sciences, Inc. of Emeryville, California and Adjunct Professor of Bioengineering at the University of California, Berkeley. BioTime, Inc. (OTCBB: BTIM) and its wholly-owned subsidiary Embryome Sciences are companies focused on human embryonic stem cell technologies. He received his Ph.D. from Baylor College of Medicine in 1989 concentrating on the biology of cellular aging. He has focused his academic and business career on the application of developmental biology to the age-related degenerative disease. He was the Founder of Geron Corporation of Menlo Park, California (Nasdaq: GERN) and from 1990 to 1998 he was a Director, and Vice President, where he initiated and managed programs in telomerase diagnostics, oligonucleotide-based telomerase inhibition as anti-tumor therapy, and the cloning and use of telomerase in telomerase-mediated therapy wherein telomerase is utilized to immortalize human cells.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• biotech
• Geron
• CNBC
• BioTime
• UC
• Berkeley
• Michael
• West
• stemcells

[happinesson]

is this bad or good news?

[robert80taylor]

“I feel I am completely cured” says Ms. Gianopoulos, “my symptoms have disappeared and I have a recovery of many functions, notably my balance and my muscle strength is all coming (back). Even after six months, I feel like there are good changes happening almost every day. Before, my biggest fear was that the changes wouldn’t (hold). I don’t even worry about having a relapse anymore”. Log on to ccsviclinic. ca for more information.

[robert80taylor]

A universal benefit reported by every patient has been the recovery of bladder control. Most MS patients have various bladder control symptoms that include urinary urgency, incontinence, nocturia, or urinary hesitancy as a result of the disruption of electrical impulses from the brain to the nerves and muscles that are involved in emptying the bladder (pudenal nerve, urethral sphincter, detrusor muscle). Log on to ccsviclinic. ca for more information.

[Jessica1963Forester]

Autologous stem cell transplantation is a procedure by which blood-forming stem cells are removed, and later injected back into the patient. All stem cells are taken from the patient themselves and cultured for later injection. In the case of a bone marrow transplant, the HSC are typically removed from the Pelvis through a large needle that can reach into the bone. Log on to ccsviclinic. ca for more information.

[DmitriCheckin]

why didn't he want to talk about it?

I think he is a republican )))

[sd62t833]

@sd62t833 "I've got problems with that"

You and everyone else that will be hopping a plane to CHina for stem cell medicine to recover from a stroke or whatever.

UNLESS companies like Geron are allowed to continue.

[sd62t833]

Let's hope they continue.

Otherwise China and Singapore will own that market.