The Stem Cell Faculty of Panama College of Cell Science

The Panama College of Cell Science offers the only PhD program in Stem Cell Medicine. The program is available internationally as an online offering and is asynchronous, meaning that the learning materials are available 24/7 and students do not have to be online same time as Instructors. Walter P. Drake, stem cell scientist, leads the …

Mining the Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF) for Stem Cell Therapy

  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 …

Dr. Victor Details Why the Stromal Vascular Fraction (SVF) is Still the Liquid Gold for Stem Cell Therapy 2022

The Panama College of Cell Science offers the world’s only 100% online Ph.D. degree in Stem Cell Biology. Our Curriculum emphasizes the methodologies used in stem cell therapy of our most serious diseases. Even though we are an online College, our Curriculum presents the very latest innovations in stem cell medicine, now including the study …

The Best Biology PhD Program for Biologists…Stem Cells

The Panama College of Cell Science has been presenting its 3 year online Ph.D. degree program in stem cell biology since 2005. Over the years, our stem cell Curriculum and focus has always been updated and modernized in order to keep up with this exciting new and distinct field of biology. Still in its infancy, …

Umbilical Cord Stem Cells Coming On Strong…Or Are They?

Presented by Walter P. Drake, Director, Panama College of Cell Science Where we are in the US as of November 1, 2019, is that the SVF fraction of stem cells from fatty tissue, collected from patients via liposuction, is still not generally permitted. SVF stands for “stromal vascular fraction”, which is isolated from fatty tissue …

Panama College of Cell Science Revised Curriculum for September 2019

The Panama College of Cell Science offers the world’s only 3 year online PhD degree program in Stem Cell Biology, focusing on the “new medicine” that is patient specific stem cell therapy. We were the first program, starting in 2005, and we are still the best stem cell biology program in the world. With the …

Cutting Edge in Cancer Treatment : Combination Therapy with Oncolytic Viruses

The following paper, exemplary of the fine work of our graduate students, explores the current thinking on the use of oncolytic viruses to destroy tumors. The paper was authored by Sayali Kale Kandari. Please scroll the article and if desired, Click on the "full screen" icon in the lower right. The Panama College of Cell …

What a Great Exam Looks Like at the Panama College of Cell Science

This Final Exam in our course, Blood-Components, Separation, Labeling was presented by our graduate student, Sayali Kale Kandari. It represents a sample of the kind of work and effort we and our students strive to produce. The online Ph.D. program in stem cell biology offered by the Panama College of Cell Science is the only …

Safety of Adult Stem Cell Therapy Demonstrated for First Time in US

The United States continues to lag far behind when it comes to treating patients with adult stem cells. Long in the grip of embryonic stem cell scientists, the medical and regulatory establishments in the US have refused to recognize adult stem cell therapy as the new medicine, even though many countries are now routinely treating …

Benefits of Adult Stem Cells vs Embryonic Stem Cells…Again

To date, there are hundreds of adult stem cell therapies available worldwide, and increasingly in the USA. But NOT ONE therapy using embryonic stem cells. Which is why people go overseas to Mexico, Thailand, and Panama for treatment of our most difficult  diseases. Like we have said many times to our students in one of …

Be Thankful for the “Unregulated Stem Cell Market” !!

A lesson for our graduate students. A story published July 2, 2016, and purporting to be ‘News”, is entitled: “Unregulated Stem Cell Market Thriving in US, Finds Study” The news report was published by Perfscience.com: http://perfscience.com/content/2144313-unregulated-stem-cell-market-thriving-us-finds-study and the complete article is here:  UnregulatedClinicsThriving The author and all persons quoted are concerned that they found “351 …

Seeking Graduate Students for Stem Cell Biology

The Panama College of Cell Science continues to offer the only 3 year online PhD program in stem cell biology in the world. We are a world class biology graduate school and both our program and our students are scholarly. Why should you study stem cell biology?? Because not only is it the new biology …

The Importance of the Paired Mice Experiments to Adult Stem Cell Therapy

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 …

Suggestions for Graduate Students Completing Dissertations at Panama College of Cell Science

 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 …

Why We Teach Adult Stem Cell Therapies At Our Graduate School

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 …

A Summary of Stem Cell Expansion Protocols prepared by graduate student, Paul Faduola, Panama College of Cell Science

Graduate Studies at the Panama College of Cell Science- Sample Work From time to time we like to post particularly good work by our graduate students. In this Assignment from the course, "Stem Cell Laboratory Protocols", students were asked to present reviews of the current state of expansion protocols for stem cells. Expansion of stem …

Stem Cell College News

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. …

New Course on Blood Is Added to Curriculum

The Panama College of Cell Science recently revised its 3 year online curriculum to include a new course: "Blood- Components, Separation, Labeling, and Culture". Because of the importance of the study of hematopoietic stem cells and mesenchymal stem cells, which can be harvested from the blood, the new course was added. "Blood is going to …

Panama College of Cell Science Announces Tuition Reduction

Tuition Reduced from $3,900 USD per year with payment plan to $2,950 USD per year, and Application Fee cancelled!! The Panama College of Cell Science, which offers the only 3 year doctoral degree in stem cell biology that can be completed entirely online via the internet, is pleased to announce a reduction in tuition fees. …

Stem Cell Pioneer Dr. Carlos Lima Dies

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 …