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Guinea pigs as a model of in utero stem cell therapy for spina bifida

Description: PROJECT NARRATIVE Spina bifida is the most common cause of lifelong childhood paralysis. Commonly used animal models are insufficient or prohibitively expensive for most translational spina bifida research. In this project, we propose to develop guinea pigs as a high throughput, cost effective model of in utero treatment of spina bifida.

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Funding type: research

Funder scheme: R03

Start date: 2017-07-01

End date: 2020-06-30

Investigator: AIJUN WANG

Institution: UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS

Topic: Spinal Dysraphism and Malformations

Subfield: Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Funded outputs count: 19

Funder award ID: R03HD091601

OpenAlex ID: G409682829