Panama College of Cell Science
3 Year Online PhD Degree in Stem Cell Medicine
[Editor Note: May 2025-This nice summary of the five categories of health ailments corrected by stem cell therapy was presented by Erin Bolton Coletti, medical student at Blue Marble University Medical School. This is offered as an excellent learning essay covering those areas in which stem cell therapy is known to be beneficial. It is …
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The Panama College of Cell Science extends a warm welcome to our new graduate students beginning the January 1 Term. The College has been offering its online PhD program in stem cell science since 2005, almost 20 years of continuous operation. The Panama College of Cell Science continues to lead the way in educating …
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Drake-Hicks Protocol For In Situ Release of Mesenchymal Stem Cells and Cytokines Following Abdominal Lipolysis Walter P. Drake1, Laurence V. Hicks Sr.2 Copyright January 2023 by Walter P. Drake and Laurence V. Hicks Sr. 1Panama College of Cell Science, Azuero Business Center, Suite 758 Avenida Perez Chitre, 00395, Panama 2Laurence V. Hicks, Sr., D.O., M.D, …
Stem Cell Therapy Without the Stem Cells Walter P. Drake Panama College of Cell Science, Azuero Business Center, Suite 758 Avenida Perez Chitre, 00395, Panama Correspondence to: Walter P. Drake ND, PhD, Bengal Bioscience, 411 Walnut St #4387, Green Cove Springs, FL 32043 (WalterDrake@BengalBioscience.com) Cite As: Drake, Walter P, “Stem Cell Therapy Without the …
Our Graduate Students Are Mining SVF-Stromal Vascular Fraction Message From Walter P. Drake to Graduate Students, Panama College of Cell Science October 4, 2022 At the Panama College of Cell Science, we have been teaching our graduate students Stem Cell Therapy using SVF. For over 15 years. While autologous stem cell therapy using a …
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September 22, 2022 The Panama College of Cell Science offers the only online Ph.D. in Stem Cell Biology in the world. And we have been offering our stem cell doctoral program since 2005. As hopes that embryonic stem cells could lead to cures evaporated over the years, stem cell therapies using adult stem cells grew …
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Here at the Panama College of Cell Science, our graduate students try to stay on top of the hottest, most advanced techniques involving stem cell therapy. So, recently the question arose as to whether a patient's dormant, inactive stem cells could be stimulated by external physical means to become curative and anti-aging. In order to …
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Dr. Lanza is one of the most gifted medical scientists of our times. There is no doubt about it. He will likely win the Nobel Prize. You can read a lot about him in any cursory search of the internet. From Wikipedia we note: "Lanza was part of the team that cloned the world's first …
The Panama College of Cell Science offers a well regarded online biology PhD in stem cell biology. Still the only online stem cell biology doctoral program in the world, we have been operating over 15 years. Our biology PhD degree is equivalent to a regionally accredited US college or university. And our online biology …
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Walter P. Drake. October 1, 2019. The best stem cell therapy is still overseas. And stem cell therapy in the US, applied routinely overseas to cure and control our most debilitating diseases, is being subverted by powerful forces bent on requiring the use of expensive off the shelf products that can be “dispensed” like drugs. …
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In 2005, the Panama College of Cell Science was formed to train scientists and clinicians in the new medicine of adult stem cell therapy. The College offered the only PhD program at that time which contained any courses espousing the benefits of adult stem cell therapy, and presenting the advancements in adult stem cell therapy …
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Message from Walter P. Drake, Director Panama College of Cell Science March 26, 2019 For our students, graduates, and others interested in Adult Stem Cell Therapy With the passage of the game-changing 21 Century Cures Act (enacted Decemeber 13, 2016), the use of adult stem cell therapy in the United States has finally been authorized. The …
The Panama College of Cell Science now offers an exciting laboratory-based option to students who prefer to complete a dissertation based on actual stem cell research. Up to now, our graduate students have done elegant “reviews” to meet their dissertation requirement. These review papers have been published in peer reviewed journals as well as through …
April 6, 2016, Dr. Walter P. Drake Here at the Panama College of Cell Science, we have spent a good amount of time on the "Paired Mice " experiments. Although for our purposes, the seminal paper was issued over 10 years ago in 2005, the importance of the paired mice experiments has yet to be …
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by Walter P. Drake, Director Panama College of Cell Science November 2015 "Do not pay any fees to view scientific articles. Boycott all "pay to view" scientific journal publishers." At the Panama College of Cell Science, we require dissertations as part of our 3 year online PhD degree in stem cell biology. So when our …
[Please Note: I am not opposed whatsoever to embryonic stem cell research which continues to lead to valuable understandings about cell-cell interactions. However, these synthetic laboratory models are not likely to lead to any patient therapies, which for many people, particularly patients with debilitating diseases, is the most important goal of stem cell research.] It …
Repair Stem Cell Institute October Newsletter details some current adult stem cell treatments. And this is why, at the Panama College of Cell Science, our three year online PhD program introduces our graduate students to international stem cell therapies available now. Except of course in the United States, where few if any stem cell therapies …
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Note to Students: A desk top adult stem cell multiplier apparatus is needed worldwide The website of the Drake Biomedical Institute recently published rudimentary design criteria for the Stem Cell Expresso Machine, a desk top stem cell expansion bioreactor for use in physicians' offices and small clinics. As Dr. Walter Drake has stated: "We do …
The Panama College of Cell Science is the only online biology graduate school offering a doctoral degree in stem cell biology. If you review our curriculum at https://stemcellcollege.wordpress.com/summary/curriculum/ you will note that our 3 year online program is divided into essentially three sections: 1. Study of Basic Sciences 2. Study of Stem Cell Biology 3. …
Even our graduate students know that!!! Here at the Panama College of Cell Science, we try to teach students to be specific regarding their use of terms. Even though our three year online PhD biology program is delivered online, yet, we try to approach stem cell science in a scholarly manner. Lately we have noticed …
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Dr. Carlos Lima, who pioneered using Adult Stem Cells to cure and/or improve paralysis from spinal cord injuries, has died on June 21. "The world has lost a wonderful, compassionate scientist and clinician in the field of adult stem cell therapy", said Dr. Walter Drake, of the Drake Biomedical Institute, and acting Dean of the …
The Panama College of Cell Science is pleased by the interest shown in our program from applicants in South Korea, India, and Nigeria. More and more biology majors are realizing the exciting field of stem cell science is now opening and that this is a field well worth pursuing as an advanced degree. Manipal University …
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Dr. Walter P. Drake, Acting Dean of the Panama College of Cell Science, resigned his membership in the ISSCR. In a letter directed to the President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research, he criticized the organization for its one sided support of embryonic stem cell research to the exclusion of research with adult …
The above is the title of an article posted on Physorg.com discussing the problems with many PhD programs. The article, written by Deborah Braconnier, summarizes some of the problems as follows: "According to Mark Taylor, the system for PhDs needs to be reformed or shut down. Universities are promoting their PhD programs in order to …
In April 2011, Stanford University School of Medicine claimed to have established the "first PhD program in stem cell science in the world". You can read the story at: http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2011/april/stem-phd.html, stating that "Stanford is the first to create a free-standing doctoral program dedicated solely to stem cell biology and regenerative medicine". The article goes on …
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