Neuralstem Announces Issuance of Core Technology Patent... ( ROCKVILLE Md. April 28 /- Stem ce...)

Neuralstem Announces Issuance of Core Technology Patent in Europe

Date:4/28/2008

ROCKVILLE, Md., April 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Stem cell company, Neuralstem, Inc., (Amex: CUR) announced today that the European Patent Office has granted Neuralstem a European patent EP0915968, covering the "Isolation, Propagation and Directed Differentiation of Stem Cells from Embryonic and Adult Central Nervous System of Mammals." The European patent has been validated in several European countries including France, Germany, Ireland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.

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"We are pleased to see our core technology patent validated in these European countries," said Neuralstem CEO, Richard Garr. "We expect this to be the first of many as our entire patent portfolio makes its way through the European process. In allowing this patent, the European Patent Office has now joined with the U.S. Patent Office in rejecting any arguments that the body of Stem Cells Inc. patents and publications, noted in the examinations, in any way prevents Neuralstem's patents from issuing."

About Neuralstem

Neuralstem's patented technology enables, for the first time, the ability to produce neural stem cells of the human brain and spinal cord in commercial quantities, and the ability to control the differentiation of these cells into mature, physiologically relevant human neurons and glia.

Major Central Nervous System diseases targeted by the Company with research programs currently underway include: Ischemic Paraplegia, Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury and ALS. The company's cells have extended the life of rats with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) as reported the journa
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