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The °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine will be officially launched on Friday 24 April, 10.

30am - 3.30pm in the J Z Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building, Gower Street.

Welcome addresses will be given by:

• Professor Ed Byrne, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Vice-Provost for Health; Executive Dean, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Faculty of Biomedical Sciences
• Professor Peter Mobbs, Executive Dean, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Faculty of Life Sciences
• Professor Ian Jacobs, Dean, Health Sciences Research °×С½ãÂÛ̳ & Partners
• Professor Claudio Stern, Chair, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Centre for Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Steering Committee; Head of °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Research Department of Cell and Developmental Biology, Division of Biosciences.
  

Confirmed °×С½ãÂÛ̳ speakers:

• Professor Martin Birchall, °×С½ãÂÛ̳'s first Professor of Laryngology, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Ear Institute; and winner of Morgan Stanley/ Daily Telegraph 2008 Great Britons (Scientific and Innovation category)
• Professor Jeremy Brockes, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Department of Structural and Molecular Biology, awarded the 2008 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Newcomb Cleveland Prize to the outstanding publication in Science uncovering a new molecular cue that promotes limb regeneration in newts
• Professor Pete Coffey, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute of Ophthalmology and Director, London Project to Cure Blindness
• Dr Paul Riley, °×С½ãÂÛ̳ Institute of Child Health; recipient of the 2008 Outstanding Achievement Award given by the European Society of Cardiology Council on Basic Cardiovascular Science.

The keynote speaker will be Dr Giulio Cossu, Fondazione San Raffaele del Monte Tabor, Milano (an expert in transplantation of adult stem cells in Duchenne muscular dystrophy).

The invited speaker will be Professor Fiona Watt, President, International Society for Stem Cell Research, Cancer Research UK, Cambridge Research Institute.

To register for the event, please email Dr Mariana Resnicoff by 31 March. For more information, visit the .