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Here, we demonstrate at the single-cell level that an alternative splice variant lacking exon 3 (hS3) is expressed in the human brain and is upregulated above EPO mRNA levels in ischemic and inflammatory neurological diseases. Conversely, hS3 mRNA expression is reduced below EPO levels in neurodegenerative disease. In an oxygen\u2013glucose deprivation (OGD) model of ischemia, a single dose of cell-free synthesized constant glycosylated active hS3 protects neuronal cultures derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSC) and human embryonic stem cells (hESC) more effectively than EPO. We identify the D-helix as a key functional domain of hS3 and demonstrate that the neuroprotective effect is enhanced by PD29, a novel small peptide derived from the D-helix of hS3. Long-term hS3 administration increases the neuroprotective effects in the OGD model by dose-dependent differential expression of apoptosis-related protein-coding genes and long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). In addition, our results suggest that hS3 induces early cell cycle inhibition without impairing differentiation of hiPSC and hESC into neuronal subtypes. 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