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News from the Regenerative Medicine


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Sponsor/Host: Northeastern Illinois University
Location: Student Union Room 214
Address: 5500 North St. Louis Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60625-4699
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The Department of of World Languages and Cultures and the Polish and European Academic Center for Exchange & Research (PEACER) invite the University community to the Kosciuszko Foundation (KF) Lecture, “News from the Regenerative Medicine,” by KF fellow Dr. Anna Domaszewska-Szostek of the Department of Human Epigenetics, Mossakowski Medical Research Centre, Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland.

An introduction to the lecture will be delivered by Dr. Maria Siemionow, an internationally recognized surgeon and president of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation. In 2008, she led a team of surgeons that performed the first near-total face transplant in the United States at the Cleveland Clinic.

The free event will take place at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, in Student Union Room 214.

Posted on behalf of Lidia Filus, Chair, Department of Mathematics, by Mike Hines, Director of Public Relations.