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Outstanding Researcher

Dr. Wise Young
Distinguished Professor
Founding Director, W. M. Keck Center for Collaborative Neuroscience (Rutgers University)
Richard H. Shindell Chair in Neuroscience


Recognized as one of the world’s outstanding neuroscientists, Dr. Wise Young is truly passionate about finding a cure for spinal cord injury.  

Every year it is estimated that there are 12,000 spinal cord injuries in the US alone (http://www.ninds.nih.gov/disorders/sci/detail_sci.htm).  Currently, there is no cure for a spinal cord injury and the damage is considered permanent.  Dr. Young's work challenges this notion.

Cord Blood: Potential Treatments for Spinal Cord Injury

In recent years, Dr. Young has focused his research on using cord blood in combination with lithium and a highly regimented physical therapy program to potentially treat spinal cord injury.  

As his research has progressed, he has opened a 25-center clinical trial network in China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, where human clinical trials with umbilical cord blood mononuclear cells and lithium are underway.

In the initial results from the phase II trial in Kunming, China, 75% of the participants (15 out of 20) recovered walking with a rolling walker.

Currently, he is establishing clinical trial networks in the United States, Norway, and India and will start Phase IIB Trials in 2016 and Phase III trials in 2017.



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SAVE THE CORD FOUNDATION, a 501c3 non-profit organization, was established to promote awareness of the life-saving benefits of cord blood based on unbiased and factual information. The Foundation educates the Next Generation, parents, health professionals and the general public about the need to preserve this valuable medical resource while providing information on both public cord blood donation programs and family cord blood banks worldwide.
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