Children's Hospital Los Angeles awarded $7.1 Million By CIRM

(Children's Hospital Los Angeles) Tracy C. Grikscheit, MD, of The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles has received a $7.1 million grant from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine Translational Research program to develop a cellular therapy for the treatment of nerve disorders of the digestive system. These disorders, called enteric neuropathies, include degenerative neuromuscular conditions as well as those caused by a deficient or missing nerve supply to the ...