$10M award to enable trials for Heart Regeneration Program
October 21, 2015 | Categories: Announcements |Washington Research Foundation invests in UW Medicine stem-cell therapy to restore heart muscle A $10 million investment from the Washington Research Foundation will enable UW Medicine scientists to begin clinical […] Read More
ISCRM’s Founding Director to receive UW Medicine’s Lifetime Innovator Award
October 20, 2015 | Categories: Announcements |ISCRM is pleased to share that Dr. Randy Moon will receive the UW Medicine Lifetime Innovator Award at an event on November 5th. This annual event celebrates the work of outstanding researchers, inventors […] Read More
Deok-Ho Kim named 2015 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering
September 30, 2015 | Categories: Announcements |ISCRM’s Deok-Ho Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at University of Washington, has been named a 2015 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) by the Biomedical […] Read More
Struggling to save black rhinos, scientists are crowdfunding to preserve their DNA
July 13, 2015 | Categories: Research |Ntombi is a six-year-old black rhino from South Africa, one of around 5,000 black rhinos left in the wild. She’s also the starting point for what a team of scientists hope to […] Read More
Congratulations to Faculty Award Winner Pam Becker, MD, PhD
July 10, 2015 | Categories: Announcements |Congratulations to ISCRM’s Pam Becker, who was selected as the 2015 Faculty Award winner by the graduating Hematology/Oncology fellows at the annual fellow’s graduation ceremony that took place Monday, June […] Read More
Congratulations 2015 Tietze Research Award Recipients
June 24, 2015 | Categories: Announcements |The Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) is pleased to announce the Spring 2015 winners of the Tietze Research Awards in Stem Cell Research, funded through a generous multi-year commitment by […] Read More
Molecular switch matures heart cells derived from stem cells
May 12, 2015 | Categories: Research |Discovery may prove a major advance in the development of stem cell treatments for heart disease A molecular switch that seems to be essential for embryonic heart cells to grow […] Read More
Dying cells can protect their stem cells from destruction
May 11, 2015 | Categories: Research |An SOS signal from dying daughter cells allows their mother stem cells to protect themselves from radiation and chemotherapy damage Cells dying as the result of radiation exposure or chemotherapy […] Read More
ISCRM Director, Dr. Randy Moon, elected to the National Academy of Sciences
April 28, 2015 | Categories: Announcements |ISCRM’s Director, Randy Moon, was elected to the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in recognition of his distinguished and significant research contributions within the field of regenerative medicine. Election to NAS membership […] Read More
Injection of marrow stem cells into the heart is proven ineffective
April 21, 2015 | Categories: Research |Marrow stem cells were injected into failing hearts of 6 patients awaiting transplantation A small study by University of Washington researchers has found no sign that bone-marrow stem-cell injections stimulated […] Read More