Parkin­son's trans­plants emerge as stem cell pi­o­neer Jeanne Lor­ing joins R&D race

Jeanne Lor­ing hadn’t stud­ied Parkin­son’s in 22 years when she got an email from a lo­cal neu­rol­o­gist.

The neu­rol­o­gist, Melis­sa Houser, didn’t know Lor­ing had ever pub­lished on the dis­ease. She was just look­ing for a stem cell re­searcher who might hear her out. 

“I think I was just picked out of a hat,” Lor­ing told End­points News. 

At a meet­ing in Lor­ing’s Scripps Re­search of­fice, Houser and a Parkin­son’s nurse prac­ti­tion­er, Sher­rie Gould, asked her why there was so much re­search done in stem cell trans­plants for oth­er neu­rode­gen­er­a­tive dis­eases but not Parkin­son’s. They want­ed to know if she would work on one. 

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