On April 9-10, nearly 200 faculty, staff, students and trainees from USC Stem Cell gathered for their annual retreat, where Chuck Murry, MD, PhD, head of the department, outlined his big-picture plans for the department’s expansion, strengthening interdisciplinary and clinical collaborations across USC and the LA Basin and accelerating translational medicine.

Keynote speaker Aileen Anderson, PhD, professor and director of the Sue and Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center at the University of California, Irvine, shared her complicated story of bringing a stem cell-based treatment for spinal cord injury to clinical trials, including many roadblocks and challenges.

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