NEUROG2 and Stroke: Direct astroglial reprogramming to neurons using viral vectors carrying transcription factors such as Sox2 (Niu et al., 2013; Heinrich et al., 2014), Ngn2 (Grande et al., 2013; Heinrich et al., 2014; Gascón et al., 2016), or Ascl1 (Torper et al., 2015; Rivetti di Val Cervo et al., 2017) provides a completely new strategy for neurorestoration after stroke.