When John Henry spent three weeks cycling across Great Britain last summer, he didn’t need to take along a three-week supply of antiretroviral pills for HIV. As part of a study at The Ottawa Hospital, Henry receives an injection once every eight weeks instead.

France Todd, whose liver cancer came out of the blue, was part of a pilot study to reduce the amount of blood patients lose during liver surgery and limit their need for blood transfusions.

When Helen Cameron came to The Ottawa Hospital with a broken hip, she had no idea she would end up being a part of a study aimed at helping other patients. But that is precisely the goal of a new study taking place at the hospital and around the world.

Bringing stem cell research to patients – that’s the common goal that has united research specialists from a wide range of disciplines under The Ottawa Hospital’s Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research, now celebrating its 10th anniversary.