{"id":170,"date":"2012-05-25T09:08:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T17:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/?p=170"},"modified":"2012-05-25T09:08:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T17:08:58","slug":"scwist-iwis-cafe-scientifique-event-on-may-30th-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/2012\/05\/25\/scwist-iwis-cafe-scientifique-event-on-may-30th-2012\/","title":{"rendered":"SCWIST IWIS Cafe Scientifique event on May 31st, 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Posted on behalf of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scwist.ca\/?page_id=263\">SCWIST IWIS<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1><strong>Are Stem Cells the Future of Modern Medicine?<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Speakers: Dr. Fabio Rossi and Dr. Jackie Damen<\/p>\n<p>Ever wondered what stem cells really are? Why are they important in biomedical\u00a0research? Which diseases could stem cell really cure? How close is this research\u00a0to treating patients?\u00a0Patients on organ transplant lists, as well as those with diabetes and heart\u00a0disease, cancer, Alzheimer\u2019s disease, MS, developmental deficiencies, and\u00a0many others could benefit from stem cell research.<\/p>\n<p>Please join us for exciting and stimulating speeches and question and answers.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, food will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>Please find the attached poster for further information:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/files\/2012\/05\/CIHR_CafeScientifique_may31_Stemcells-1.pdf\">CIHR_CafeScientifique_may31_Stemcells-1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Your\u00a0IWIS\u00a0Team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posted on behalf of SCWIST IWIS Are Stem Cells the Future of Modern Medicine? Speakers: Dr. Fabio Rossi and Dr. Jackie Damen Ever wondered what stem cells really are? Why are they important in biomedical\u00a0research? Which diseases could stem cell really cure? How close is this research\u00a0to treating patients?\u00a0Patients on organ transplant lists, as well [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4075,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4075"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":173,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170\/revisions\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/cafesci\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}