Developing stem cell-based therapies to treat our most serious diseases
What if a patient’s cancer had a unique fingerprint? And what if that fingerprint could be used to help physicians treat patients, faster and more effectively than ever? This is precision medicine. And Dr. Pam Becker and a team of UW researchers are using it to save lives. Read More
Under the billing of Tall Orders, Dr. Murry raised the curtain on the profound potential of stem cells to change the way humans confront chronic disease. Watch the TEDxSeattle program here or read more about the landmark heart regeneration research underway at UW Medicine. Read More
Researchers from the UW Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) are taking part in a collaborative effort to send heart tissue on chips to the International Space Station to study how microgravity impacts cardiovascular functioning. Read More
From his landmark research on the mechanisms of developmental biology to his pivotal role in the launch of ISCRM, Dr. Randall T. Moon has made a lasting impact on science and on thousands of students, colleagues, and collaborators in labs around the world. At the heart of it all is a natural instinct to make room for serendipity. Read More
Capillaries, the tiny but abundant vessels that enable the exchange of nutrients and waste, are so narrow that red blood cells must pass through in a single file line, making them challenging to study and prohibitively difficult to engineer. Until now. Read More
ISCRM faculty member Jen Davis is the new director of the UW Center for Cardiovascular Biology, an important ISCRM research partner. For the last decade Davis has been studying the role scarring plays in heart disease and in wound healing throughout the body.
