About the Authors

Michal Aharonowiz

Affiliations The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cells Research Center, The Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Neurology, The Agnes Ginges Center for Human Neurogenesis, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Ofira Einstein

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Agnes Ginges Center for Human Neurogenesis, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Nina Fainstein

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Agnes Ginges Center for Human Neurogenesis, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Hans Lassmann

Affiliation Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Benjamin Reubinoff

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Reubinoff, Tamir Ben-Hur

benjaminr@ekmd.huji.ac.il (BR); TAMIR@hadassah.org.il (TBH)

Affiliations The Hadassah Human Embryonic Stem Cells Research Center, The Goldyne Savad Institute of Gene Therapy, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel, Department of Gynecology, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Tamir Ben-Hur

Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin Reubinoff, Tamir Ben-Hur

benjaminr@ekmd.huji.ac.il (BR); TAMIR@hadassah.org.il (TBH)

Affiliation Department of Neurology, The Agnes Ginges Center for Human Neurogenesis, Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

Competing Interests

BR holds shares and is the chief scientific officer of CellCure Neurosciences Ltd. TBH also holds shares and is a consultant of CellCure Neurosciences. CellCure neurosciences develops hESC-derived neural progeny for cell therapy for neurological disorders.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MA HL BR TBH. Performed the experiments: MA OE NF. Analyzed the data: MA OE BR TBH. Wrote the paper: MA BR TBH.