{"id":7609,"date":"2025-06-03T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/?p=7609"},"modified":"2025-06-03T11:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:46:36","slug":"renowned-stem-cell-expert-lecturing-about-ms-repair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/2025\/06\/03\/renowned-stem-cell-expert-lecturing-about-ms-repair\/","title":{"rendered":"Renowned Stem Cell Expert Lecturing about MS repair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stefano Pluchino, the pioneer of the field of regenerative neuroimmunology and professor from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., is the keynote speaker for the inaugural Petit Family Lecture and Visiting Professorship in Multiple Sclerosis and Immunology at UConn Health. The program is free, with registration required. Doors open at 3 p.m. in UConn Health\u2019s Keller Auditorium; the seminar begins at 4 p.m. A reception will follow at 5:30 p.m. Patients and families, donors and supporters, faculty and researchers, MD and Ph.D. students.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The UConn Faculty Host is Dr. Jaime Imitola, Professor of Neurology, Genetics and Genome Sciences, and Neuroscience; Vice Chair for Research Department of Neurology; and Director, Division of Multiple Sclerosis and Translational Neuroimmunology.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/06\/Pluchino.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/06\/Pluchino.jpg\" alt=\"S. Pluchino\" width=\"234\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7610 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 234px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 234\/265;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/121\/2025\/06\/Pluchino.jpg\" alt=\"S. Pluchino\" width=\"234\" height=\"265\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7610\" \/><\/noscript><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Stefano Pluchino, the pioneer of the field of regenerative neuroimmunology and professor from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences at the University of Cambridge in the U.K., is the keynote speaker for the inaugural Petit Family Lecture and Visiting Professorship in Multiple Sclerosis and Immunology at UConn Health. The program is free, with registration required. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-01 07:44:47","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7609"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7615,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7609\/revisions\/7615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/health.uconn.edu\/neuroscience\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}