Baculoviral IAP repeat containing two (BIRC2, also known as cIAP1) is a member of a family of proteins that inhibit apoptosis (Marivin, Berthelet, Plenchette, & Dubrez, 2012; Varfolomeev et al., 2007) and was shown to be target for neuroprotection in rat brains after stroke (Huang et al., 2015). This evidence concerns the gene BIRC2 and stroke disorder.