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This project will use cells found in bone marrow as a potential means of delivering treatments to the diseased area in brain and spinal cord.

Motor neurons are made up of three distinct regions. The top of the neuron is composed of branches like a tree called dendrites that receive information to transmit.

Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a severely disabling illness with biological causes that are not well understood. Abnormalities in gene function impacts brain activities and could cause AD.

In Alzheimer s disease (AD), critical synaptic connections between neurons disintegrate and cells die.

One percent of Alzheimer’s disease is the early-onset type that runs in families.

Individuals with Alzheimer’s suffer severe memory loss over time, and eventually are completely dependent on caregivers.

Brain cancer is the most common type of solid cancer in children in Canada, and medulloblastoma is the most common malignant brain cancer of childhood.

Cancer can exhibit relentless growth and relapse because of the enhanced protection of its chromosome ends.

Dr David Stojdl’s lab has custom‑built an oncolytic virus biotherapy specifically for the treatment of the devastating brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).

In childhood, medulloblastoma (a form of brain cancer) and neuroblastoma (a cancer that starts in the nerve cells) can be aggressive and hard to treat.