Childhood Neurological Disorders Will Be Focus Of Workshop

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Childhood Neurological Disorders Will Be Focus Of Workshop

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Childhood neurological disorders will be the focus of a new and

innovative workshop to be attended by more than 40 junior as well as

senior neuroscientists from all over the country on September 16 -

19 at a ranch north of Santa Barbara in the Santa Ynez Valley. The

promise of stem cell research as a tool to help overcome these

disorders will be among key topics to be addressed.

S. Kosik, co-director of the Neuroscience Research Institute

at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will chair the

workshop with D. Macklis, director of the Massachusetts

General Hospital-Harvard Medical School Center for Nervous System

Repair. Children's Neurobiological Solutions (CNS), a private

foundation, has organized the event. The foundation's chief

scientist, M. n, will be among the participants.

The mission of the CNS Young Neuroscientists' Workshop series is to

expose outstanding young neuroscientists to emerging ideas about

childhood brain disorders, with the long-term aim of influencing

some of these young researchers to incorporate the study of these

disorders into their career objectives.

Kosik, who is well known for his research on Alzheimer's disease,

will present a talk entitled, " Career Focus " Developing the microRNA

Story as a Means to Study Neuronal Plasticity and Impact on

Neurodegenerative disease. "

CNS developed the workshop, which will be held every other year, in

order to accelerate and fund research for new brain repair and

regeneration therapies for over 14 million children in the United

States who struggle with neurological disorders. The foundation

donates more than $1 million per year for basic research as well as

clinical trials, and is a major supporter of stem cell research.

Instead of focusing on a specific disease, CNS targets research on

the developing brain and how it can regenerate and repair itself.

This focus encourages collaboration among researchers and opens the

way to new knowledge and therapies for the broad spectrum of

childhood neurological disorders.