World Stem Cell Flooded With Patient Applications for Research
Recent World Stem Cell Research Center, founded by famous stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo-suk, announced that it is seeking test subjects suffering from Parkinson’s disease and spinal cord paralysis.
The center is flooded with over 3000 applications by patients willing to be the test subjects for stem cell research. Who are these patients?
For the past few decades, Kim Young-ja lived with the thought that she could never walk again. Seeking what she sees as the only chance for a cure, the 55-year-old South Korean joined thousands of patients who applied to take part in stem cell research with World Stem Cell Center that hopes to cure hard-to-treat diseases with its trailblazing cloning technology.
“I spent the past 22 years in tears and I had no hope,” said Kim, who was paralyzed from the chest down in a 1983 traffic accident with a drunken driver.
She is among thousands of people volunteering skin cells to help launch a global center that will grow embryonic stem cells for research.
On Tuesday, the first day it accepted applications from patients to participate in research, the center received 3,500 responses from patients via the Internet, telephone and fax or in person, said Lim Jong-pil, an official at the center at Seoul National University Hospital. During the day, the center’s Web site was inaccessible for hours due to a rush of applications.
November 9th, 2005 at 3:12 pm
I have been paralized for two years due to a dionosis of TB Meningites and SLE (LUPUS) AN AUTOIMUNE desease, with a prognosis of Transverse Myelitis.(T7) I would like to volunteer as test subject. Kindly forward requirements needed. Thank you for taking the time im reading my e-mail and look forward to you response.
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Wendy-May Petzer
SOUTH AFRICA
MOBILE: 0825627499
051 - 5227788
May 2nd, 2006 at 12:27 am
My name is Raul Ulloa, live in the US. My father suffered spinal cord injury 40 years ago. Where can we go for more information on stem cell therapy? Where are they doing these procedures for spinal cord injuries?
July 20th, 2006 at 9:52 pm
ON 9-26-02 I WAS IN A CAR WRECK THAT BROKE MY NECK(C5,C6)@ 21YRS OLD& 22WKS PREGO W/MY YOUNGEST.DOCTORS SAY IM UNIQE CAUSE IM DIFFERENT THAN OTHER QUADS I CAN TELL UR TOUCHIN ME & SOMETIMES MOVE MY FOOT,JUST THINGS LIKE THAT ANYWAYS I WOULD LUV 2 VOLENTEER 4 U 2 USE STEM CELL ON ME SO I CAN TAKE CARE OF MY 7YR & 3YR OLD BOYS PLUS MARRY THE MAN I LUV,WE CANT GET MARRIED CAUSE HES MY CAREGIVER WE LIVE OFF $1200 A MO THATS IT
thank u
danielle shine
danie19807@yahoo.com
October 5th, 2006 at 1:01 pm
I was diagnosed with diabetes on March 20th, 2001 just as I was entering my teenaged years.. Diabetes greatly affected my life.. I didn’t get to enjoy my years in high school nearly as much.. I had to skip from being a teenager to having to be an adult… I felt like I was robbed of part of my childhood.. Some people think having it since birth is hard.. And I’ve had people tell me that I should be thankful that I haven’t had it my whole life.. However, people who have had diabetes their whole life never had to adjust to a different lifestyle.. The adjustment was very hard on me.. And it still is even now over 5 years later… The stress of college and life in general is extremely hard and its almost impossible to get my sugars under control… Just as I feel I’ve succeeded on controlling them.. They will start going all over the place again.. I would like to volunteer to be a test subject for either adult or umbilical cord stem cells, not embryonic.. Please contact me with any information that could help.. Thank you so much.
-Annie G.