15 Facts About Sally Temple

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Sally Temple is an American developmental neuroscientist in Albany, New York.

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Sally Temple is a co-founder and scientific director for The Neural Stem Cell Institute and is a professor of Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology at Albany Medical College Temple is the principal investigator in her laboratory that focuses on neural stem cells and therapies for neurological-related disorders.

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Sally Temple then continued her PhD education at the University College London and competed her postdoctoral fellowship at Columbia University.

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Sally Temple has since been labelled an innovator in the field of stem cells, specifically neural stem cells, which are potentially applicable in cell replacement therapy for ailments like spinal cord injury and neurodegeneration.

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Sally Temple is the president and co-founder of StemCulture, LLC, a company created by scientists in order to create innovative products and promote scientific research.

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Sally Temple currently is the scientific director of the Neural Stem Cell Institute.

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Sally Temple is a faculty member for Albany Medical College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and SUNY Albany.

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Dr Sally Temple is married to Dr Jeffrey Stern, a retinal surgeon, who is the other co-founder of the Regenerative Research Foundation and Neural Stem Cell Institute.

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Sally Temple is a member of the Editorial Board for Developmental Cell.

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10.

Sally Temple has provided evidence in her field that has shown that progenitor cells gradually lose the ability to divide.

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11.

Sally Temple established that the Foxg1 gene is important in this, because a reduction in its expression results in a delay in this process.

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Sally Temple discussed how her team has been furthering their research into culturing human retinal stem cells and the use of RPE cells in therapy for age-related macular degeneration.

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Sally Temple has a large number of patents related to neural stem cells and for various methods for culture undifferentiated cells.

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In 2003 Dr Sally Temple received the Jacob Javitz Merit Award from the National Institute of Health.

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Dr Sally Temple was the recipient of the 2010 Citizen Laureate Awards.

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