Steven Stice is an eminent scholar in the Georgia Research Alliance who is currently working (at the University of Georgia) on a multitude of projects revolving around the many uses of stem cells. He has ongoing research into agriculture looking at the efficacy of using cloning techniques in pigs and cattle and he has done work in biomedicine using "Human stem cells for treating cardiovascular diseases (heart and blood vessel repair) neurodegenerative disease such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s and Multiple Sclerosis and neural injuries like spinal cord as well as head trauma."

He and his collaborators have:

• recently announced the birth of 8 cloned calves and now have 30 calves derived from a more efficient method of cloning cattle and have produced three cloned pigs.
• were also the first to produce a clone from an animal that had been dead for 48 hours. This opens new opportunities in agriculture and preserving endangered species.
• have produced neurons that have neural functions
• have vascular stem cells that have characteristics that may make them suitable for transplantation
• have a new company call Aruna BioMedical that will stem cells for vascular repair
• are one of five NIH stem cell training centers and have taught Scientists from Georgia to Bombay India new stem cell techniques

 

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