BrainStem - Stem Cell center of Excellence in Neurology

Innovation Fund Denmark has granted 24 million DKK to BrainStem – Stem Cell Center of Excellence in Neurology - which will do research in neurodegenerative diseases over a 6 year period - from 2015 until 2020.
Advanced stem cell technologies will be used to re-program skin cells from patients with Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases to diseased neurons. The researchers will thus have a close look at the molecular mechanisms behind neudegenerative diseases. The hope is that these diseased cells can be used to develop better diagnostics and to test new drugs.