The complexity of Central Nervous System disorders demands the development of innovative therapies. Areas cell transplantation approaches, bio and neuro-engineering, molecular/pharmacotherapy therapies and enabling technologies are key in regenerative medicine approaches that target injury and disease within the CNS. On the other hand, it also critical to be aware of the most important ethical issues, as well as the proper steps to take a therapy from the bench to the bed side, including the limitations of animal models of injury and disease.

Having this in mind, the objectives of the present course are to:

  1. Describe the basic biology and anatomy of the CNS, and how injury and disease affects its balance;
  2. Discuss the limitations of the present therapies used in the clinics;
  3. Introduce the recent trends in different field field of CNS regenerative medicine including cell transplantation, bio and neuro-engineering, molecular/pharmacotherapy therapies and enabling technologies;
  4. Present successful cases of translation of basic research to first-in-human trials, and the steps needed to follow this path.
The final purpose of this course is to create a unique multidisciplinary forum that can lead the pariticipants foster new ideas and strategies that can pave the way for the future development of this field.

This course does not provide credentials for the exercise of medicine for those without appropriate training, recognition and registered at the "Ordem dos Médicos" or international equivalent institutions. ​