Advancing Regenerative Medicine

Stanford's Alpha Clinic supports the advancement of regenerative therapies in the following ways

Current Cell and Gene Therapy Clinical Trial List:

A Safety and Tolerability Study of Neural Stem Cells (NR1) in Subjects With Chronic Ischemic Subcortical Stroke (ISS)

Evaluation of the safety and tolerability of escalating doses of NR1 administered intracerebrally at a single time-point post-injury to subjects with chronic ISS with or without cortical stroke.

Stanford is currently not accepting patients for this trial.

Stanford Investigator(s):

Intervention(s):

  • biological: Neural Stem Cells

Eligibility

Inclusion Criteria:

* Age 18 - 75 years
* History of ischemic subcortical stroke in the middle cerebral artery and/or lenticulostriate artery 6 to 60 months from time of stroke
* Ability of subject to understand and provide written Informed Consent
* Willing to take tacrolimus (Prograf) 2 days before and for 2 months after transplant

Exclusion Criteria:

* Stroke lesion less than 1 cubic centimeter or greater than 100 cubic centimeters measured by MRI
* Index stroke is lacunar infarct less than 1 year old
* History or presence of any major neurological disease
* History of active cancer other than basal or squamous cell skin cancers
* History of seizures
* Pregnant or breast-feeding

Ages Eligible for Study

18 Years - 75 Years

Genders Eligible for Study

ALL

Not currently accepting new patients for this trial

Contact Information

Stanford University
School of Medicine
300 Pasteur Drive
Stanford, CA 94305
Clinical Research Coordinator
650-723-0508
Not Recruiting

The Alpha Clinic Network

We are part of a state-wide network funded by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

This network includes: