First Patient Dosed in Cervical Region in Neuralstem ALS Stem Cell Trial

Neuralstem, Inc.

announced that the first patient to receive stem cells in the cervical (upper back) region of the spine was treated on Friday in its ongoing trial to test the safety of its spinal cord neural stem cells in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease). Patient 13 is the first in the trial to be dosed in this region. It is also the first time surgeons have gone into the gray matter of the cervical region. The initial twelve patients in the trial all received stem cell transplants in the lumbar (lower back) region of the spinal cord only.