Cerebral palsy is the most common physical disability in childhood

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Research Briefing - 24 NOVEMBER 2011

The Cerebral Palsy Research Briefings bring together some of the world's leading researchers on cerebral palsy intervention and prevention to share their latest research findings.

Professor Nadia Badawi



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Partnerships, science and money: essential elements for the prevention and cure of cerebral palsy.

Introduction and Acknowledgements by Andrew Buchanan, Board Member of Cerebral Palsy Alliance.

Professor Badawi, Chair of Cerebral Palsy provides an overview of the creation of an international research network aimed at the prevention and cure of cerebral palsy. This network is an outcome of Cerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation’s Prevention and Cure Summit. The Summit was held in San Francisco in October 2011 and was kindly funded by a generous donation from the Balnaves Foundation.

Professor Nadia Badawi leads our dedicated team of researchers. Professor Badawi is a world renowned neonatologist who has extensive experience working in the field of cerebral palsy.



Professor Alan Trounson - Keynote Address



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World focus on stem cell research

Professor Trounson's presentation focuses on how stem cell research has the potential to yield groundbreaking new tools to understand and develop therapies for CP and related brain disorders. He also discusses the challenging nature of the research and its high risk to investigators which in many cases requires novel interdisciplinary collaborations and an increased focus on translations.

Professor Alan Trounson is President of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) in California, the state’s $3 billion stem cell agency. He is a pioneer of human IVF and associated reproductive technologies including diagnosis of inherited genetic disease in pre-implantation embryos, and the discovery and production of human embryonic stem cells and their directed differentiation into a range of cell and tissue types.