What services do you provide?
World Stem Cell Therapy Center is committed to R&D, production, sales, and clinical application of stem cells. Our Center is dedicated to enhance health condition and improve human life quality.
The total staff of our Neurosurgery Center is 54. The Neurosurgery Center is equipped with three-dimensional orientation, Robotic Operating Room, ECG Room and Neural Cell Culture Lab with total area of 2,100 square meters. The Center has 132 medical equipments, such as micro-electrode system, epilepsy knife systems, robotics systems, endoscopy systems, dynamic brain electro retinography machine, operating microscope and ultrasonic aspirator.
What is a Stem Cell?
Stem cell is basically a cell that does not yet specialized in the body. Stem cells have key features that separate them from other types of cells. They are:
• Unspecialized and renew themselves by dividing
• Able, under specific conditions, to become cells with specialized funcitons (e.g. nerve cell)
When a stem cell divides, the new cell can become a different cell with a more specific function, such as a heart cell, or it can remain a stem cell.
What is stem cell therapy?
Stem cell treatments are a type of genetic medicine that introduces new cells into damaged tissue in order to treat a disease or injury. Over 70 different disorders have been identified as amenable to stem cell therapy. The process of treatment is to inject the prepared stem cells into a person or organism to repair specific tissues or to grow organs.
Why China?
The laws and policies regarding stem cell research & treatment in the People's Republic of China are relatively flexible compared with that of other nations. The reason for this is due to different traditional and cultural background.
China has one of the most unrestrictive embryonic stem cell research policies in the world. In recent years, by seeing the China's flexible policies & regulations, many Chinese scientists are returning from the Western countries to China to establish stem cell research centers and laboratories. As a result of increased interest in this field of research, Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology and Chinese Ministry of Health have issued official ethical guidelines for human embryonic stem cell research and clinical application in China. Therefore, the therapies with stem cell are much faster developed in China than any other countries in the world.
Which diseases can be treated with stem cells?
65 diseases/conditions treated by stem cells Here are the categories that are successfully treated by adult stem cells:Cancers, Auto-Immune Diseases, Cardiovascular, Ocular, Immunodeficiency, Neural Degenerative Diseases/Injuries, Anemia/Blood Conditions, Wounds/Injuries, Other Metabolic Disorders.
Clinical Centers:
WSTC has 6 key treatment groups:
Special Stem Cell Treatment Center of Cerebrovascular Surgery:
Works of the Center:
1. Provide the stem cells treatment of the cerebral Infarction
2. Provide the stem cells treatment of the acute cerebral hemorrhage
3. Research on the hemiplegia or paraplegia due to long-term the cerebrovascular diseases
4. Research on the clinical observation of the acute brain surgery, and related stem cell transplantation adaptation
5. Develop the stereotactic-assisted system with the Treatment Center of Stereotactic Assisted
Stereotactic Surgery (robot) Center for Stem Cell Treatment:
Works of the Center
1. Provide the variety of the stem cell transplantation treatments of nervous system
2. Research on the development of the individual precise designed stem cell transplantation system
3. Develop the new therapies for patients and provide the post therapy follow up programs
4. Participate the joint consultation meetings for various hardly-cured diseases.
Stem Cell Transplantation Center for Various Diseases: One of the national institutions conducting the individual refined treatment with stem cells. The Center has 85 beds.
Our mission is to focus on patients with difficult diseases. Our goal is to develop comprehensive diagnosis and treatment for various diseases in evidence-based medicine and to be the world leader.
The Center has more than 130 sets of state-of-art equipments, which work best during the operation and provide excellent service for patients. The Center has conducted about 5000 operations on various difficult diseases and the success ratio is 98%. Most patients satisfy the treatment effects and many are cured clinically. The Center provides the personalized and refined comprehensive medical service. Everything we do is just for patient’s health.
Epilepsy Surgery Center:
Works of the centre:
1. Consulting for treatment of refractory epilepsy with other departments
2. Treatment of common epilepsy
3. Assisting diagnosis for treatment of epilepsy with stem cells
4. Clinical monitoring after operation with stem cell transplantation
5. Rehabilitation therapy after the operation.
Center for Epilepsy Treatment with Stem Cells:
Works of the centre:
1. Treatment of refractory epilepsy with stem cell transplantation
2. Treatment of common epilepsy with stem cell transplantation
3. Research and development of solutions to difficult problems in treatment of epilepsy
4. Clinical monitoring and studying after the treatment with stem cell transplantation
5. To develop brain operation assisted by stereotaxic technology with the Center for Stereotaxic Technology.
International Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stem Cells: The most important clinical research body in the world, and responsible for the research and development of stem cell transplantation technology as well as the construction, management and investigation of the evidence-based medicine database for stem cell research, which is of great significance for the direction of medicine in the future in the world.
Information about your leading medical staff
The leader of the Center is Dr. Tian Zengmin.
Dr Tian Zengmin
Master of Medicine, Chief Physician, Professor. Vice President of the Chinese Navy General Hospital, Director of Neurosurgery Center, PLA, doctoral degree student advisor in China Second Military Medical University, Director of Naval Institute of Neurology.
As a famous expert in neurosurgery, Dr. Tian currently is the Executive Director of the International Society of Stereotactic Neurosurgery; Deputy Director of the Functional Neurosurgery Group, Neurosurgical Branch of Chinese Medical Association; Deputy Director of the Beijing Neurosurgical Institute; Director of the Chinese Medicine Committee, Beijing Medical Awards Foundation; Deputy Editor of "Journal of China Minimal Invasion Surgery"; Editor of "Journal of International Medicine Cerebrovascular Diseases "; Editor of the book "Modern Stereotactic Neurosurgery" and edited 20 other books.
Dr. Tian has published, as the first author, more than 120 articles in academic journals. In May of 1997, Dr. Tian applied the robot into the surgery, it was listed as one of Top Ten News of Chinese medicine field in that year. In 2003, Dr. Tian performed successfully the teleoperation between Beijing and Shenyang. It was the first case in the world and he has successfully carried out more than 1800 cases of operation by now.
Expertise
1. Modern Stereotactic surgery: Did the research on the technology for 20 years, and the first person who utilizes this technique in China. The diseases such as cerebral hemorrhage, epilepsy, brain abscess, foreign body in brain can be treated without craniotomy.
2. Brain tumor radiotherapy: Successfully complete 1900 cases of variety of isotopes for multiple sites, multiple types of brain tumor radiotherapy, especially gliomas and craniopharyngiomas, etc.
3. Robotic Surgery: Developed the robotic surgery system for brain surgery. This technique is the only system in the world now. Since 1997, he has successfully completed 1,200 cases of minimal invasive surgery with robot.
4. Neural Stem Cell Transplantation: Since 2000, he has carried out 360 cases of the neural stem cell transplantation to treat Parkinson's disease, cerebellar atrophy, mental illness with good results. Please see our website www.worldstemcells.net for information on individual Medical Staff.