Title: Freshly Thawed Cryobanked Human Neural Stem Cells Engraft within Endogenous Neurogenic Niches and Restore Cognitive Function Following Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury Abbreviated Title: Freshly thawed cryobanked human NSCs for chronic TBI

Acknowledgements
We want to thank technical staff at the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Center, especially Rebecca Nishi, Christopher Nelson, Joshua David, and Krystal Carta for their help with animal surgeries, functional assessments and cell culture technical assistance. We are also particularly grateful for the generous support of Rupert W. Overall in sharing the Rtrack software package and assistance in the reproducible automation of water maze analysis. For video editing and quantitative analysis, we also thank students Ashlyn Wang, Mark Christian E. Marquez, Karan Bhatt and Deva Watson. We also thank Pranav Sankar for technical assistance with immunohistochemistry. This study was supported by CIRM DISC2-10195. Javi Lepe was a CIRM intern funded through the CIRM Grant EDUC2-08383.