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Dr. Lauralyn McIntyre, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Caption: Dr. Lauralyn McIntyre of the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and the University of Ottawa has been awarded more than $400,000 from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and the Stem Cell Network to lead the first clinical trial in the world of a stem cell therapy for septic shock.

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