About the Authors

Marcel M. Daadi

*E-mail: mdaadi@stanford.edu

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery and Stanford Stroke Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Anne-Lise Maag

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery and Stanford Stroke Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Gary K. Steinberg

Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery and Stanford Stroke Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California, United States of America

Competing Interests

Stanford University has filed a patent application on this method of derivation and expansion of neural stem cells.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MD GS. Performed the experiments: MD AM. Analyzed the data: MD AM GS. Wrote the paper: MD.