Where Innovation Meets Patients: The Work of California’s Alpha Clinics

Sanford Stem Cell Institute Symposium 2025

An episode of the Stem Cell Channel (Video) podcast, hosted by UCTV: UC San Diego, titled "Where Innovation Meets Patients: The Work of California’s Alpha Clinics" was published on March 30, 2026 and runs 74 minutes.

March 30, 2026 ·74m · Stem Cell Channel (Video)

Summary

Alpha Clinics in California accelerate the development of regenerative medicine therapies that use cells and genes to treat serious diseases. Patient advocate Tara Radcliffe Ghiglieri shares lived experience with gene therapy, while Sheldon Morris, M.D., M.P.H., Mehrdad Abedi, M.D., Daniela A. Bota, M.D., Ph.D., Catriona Jamieson, M.D., Ph.D., Michael Lewis, M.D., Mark Walters, M.D., and Leo D. Wang, M.D., Ph.D., describe how Alpha Clinic teams design and deliver clinical trials for a wide range of conditions, including cancer, blood disorders, neurologic disease, osteoarthritis, metabolic disorders, pulmonary arterial hypertension, and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. They highlight how coordinated networks, community partnerships, and genomic tools help expand access, lower financial barriers, and bring promising cell and gene therapies to more patients while carefully tracking safety, effectiveness, and long-term outcomes. Series: "Stem Cell Channel" [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 41168]

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