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SYDNEY, March 26, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney has announced it is funding adult stem cell research.  A $50,000 grant made available on 9 April 2002 by Archbishop Pell to support adult stem cell research has been awarded to a research team at Griffith University, led by Professor Alan Mackay-Sim.  Archbishop Pell said “This is an Australian project of genuine excellence, Australian science at its best, and I warmly congratulate Professor Mackay-Sim and his colleagues on winning this grant.” Professor Mackay-Sim said that this grant will fund research into the use of olfactory stem cells in treating Parkinson’s disease.  “Potentially these cells could be taken from a patient’s own nose, grown in the laboratory and transplanted into the same patient. This obviates the ethical and technical problems raised by transplanting cells from other people or from embryos,” Professor Mackay-Sim said.  See the Sydney Archdiocesan site for more information:  https://www.sydney.catholic.org.au/