StemCells Issues Long-Term Follow-Up Study in Batten Disease

StemCells, Inc.

announced today the results of a four-year observation study in patients with neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (NCL), also referred to as Batten disease, who had been transplanted with the Company's proprietary HuCNS-SC® cells (purified human neural stem cells) in the initial Phase I study. Key results include long-term evidence of safety, up to five years post transplantation, for the surgical transplantation of the HuCNS-SC cells into multiple sites in the brain and at doses of up to one billion cells. The study results represent the first, and thus far only, multi-year data set following transplantation of neural stem cells into human subjects, and supports the feasibility of the Company's approach in multiple neurological disorders. The data will be presented today by Nathan Selden, MD, PhD, FACS, FAAP, who was co-principal investigator in the studies, at the Congress of Neurological Surgeons Annual Meeting in San Francisco, California.