We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them.

This inspired him and he felt his natural competitive edge coming back. With this new Center we're off to an amazing start. In Massachusetts Reeve could take a Concorde and see them any time.

He lobbied on behalf of people with spinal-cord injuries and for human embryonic stem cell research founding the Christopher Reeve Foundation and co-founding the Reeve-Irvine Research Center. He achieved stardom for his acting achievements in particular his motion-picture portrayal of the fictional superhero Superman. Christopher and Dana's son William Elliot Reeve was born on June 7 1992.