Cell & Stem Cell Research

Mahsa Rashidi is MD, PhD at Children’s National Hospital, DC, affiliated to George Washington University of Medical Sciences, USA. She has finished her Medical degree at Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. Her PhD is a joint program between George Washington University, USA and the University of Melbourne, Australia. This abstract is based on her PhD thesis, submitted to the University of Melbourne, Faculty of Medicine, Australia. Her work is focused on evaluating skin-stem-cells for cell-based therapies in muscular dystrophies. In her work, the effects of various dosages of several drugs/treatments on the stem cells differentiation is evaluated.