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Seed Funding Leads to NIH Grant to Test Promising Gene Replacement Strategy

August 20, 2026 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty | Tagged: , , ,

Seed funding enabled Hichem Tasfaout to gather the data required for a multi-institutional federal grant to test a promising gene replacement strategy for a family of inherited muscle diseases. Read More

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Mark Bothwell and Yusha (Katie) Liu Receive Tietze Research Awards

June 1, 2026 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty | Tagged: ,

Mark Bothwell and Yusha (Katie) Liu have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust that will help fuel promising research underway in their labs. Read More

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ISCRM Stem Cell Core Shares ISSCR Public Service Award

March 13, 2026 | Categories: Award | Tagged: ,

A global network of stem cell cores that includes ISCRM’s Tom and Sue Ellison Stem Cell Core has received a 2026 Public Service Award from the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).  Read More

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New $8.6M NIH RC2 Grant for an Interdisciplinary Team of ISCRM Faculty.

October 6, 2025 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty | Tagged: , , , , , , ,

An interdisciplinary team of ISCRM researchers has received an $8.6 million grant from the NIH to accelerate cell therapies for diabetes by achieving more reliable and reproducible generation of fully functional pancreatic islets from multiple stem cell lines. Read More

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Meet the 2025 Tietze Award Winners

May 6, 2025 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , ,

Smita Yadav and Nobuhiko (Nobu) Hamazaki have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust that will help fuel promising research underway in their labs. Read More

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David Baker Receives Nobel Prize

October 9, 2024 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty | Tagged:

ISRCRM faculty member David Baker has been awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for computational protein design. Read More

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Meet the 2024 Tietze Award Winners

May 24, 2024 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty | Tagged: , ,

ISCRM Associate Director Nate Sniadecki, PhD, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Hichem Tasfaout, PhD, Acting Assistant Professor, Neurology have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust that will help fuel promising research underway in their labs. Read More

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Meet the 2023 ISCRM IPA Recipients

June 22, 2023 | Categories: Award, Research | Tagged: , , ,

Cole DeForest, Ronald Young Kwon, Feini (Sylvia) Qu, and Meredith Redd have received the 2023 ISCRM Innovation Pilot Awards. Read More

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Meet the 2023 Tietze Award Winners

June 1, 2023 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , , ,

Julie Mathieu, PhD and Niclas Bengtsson, PhD have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust that will help fuel promising research underway in their labs. Read More

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NIH Grant Advances Alzheimer’s Research – And Launches a Career

March 28, 2023 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Uncategorized | Tagged: , , ,

Tiara Schwarze-Taufiq, an ISCRM undergraduate fellow in 2021, is now a Research Scientist in the Young Lab thanks to an NIH R21 grant made possible in part by her own research. Read More