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

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

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

WRF Fellowships for Two ISCRM Undergraduate Researchers

November 7, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Heart Regeneration | Tagged: , , ,

Undergraduate student researchers Dessirée Ortaç and Eesha Murali have received Washington Research Foundation Fellowships that will support their time in the lab through the end of the 2023 school year. Read More

NIH Grant Will Support Collaborative Hemophilia Study

October 7, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty | Tagged: ,

In a longitudinal study of mothers and babies, a research team led by ISCRM faculty member Jill Johnsen, MD will trace the roots of risk for immune complications caused by a treatment for severe Hemophilia A. Read More

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Developing a Neuromuscular Modeling System

October 6, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty | Tagged: , , , , ,

An NIH R03 grant and a UW Royalty Research Fund grant will allow ISCRM researchers and their partners to develop a modeling system that integrates neurons and skeletal muscle tissue. Read More

MSBL Receives NIH Grant to Expand DEIA Mentorship

October 4, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , ,

The Musculoskeletal Systems Biology Lab (MSBL), directed by ISCRM faculty member Ron Kwon, has received a $431,765 award from the NIH in recognition of excellence in DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility) mentorship. Read More

Modeling a Muscle Disease in 3D

August 17, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , ,

A team of investigators led by ISCRM faculty members David Mack, PhD and Nate Sniadecki, PhD have shown that is possible to recreate DMD with much more complexity in a 3D model of engineered heart tissue. Read More

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Meet the 2022-2023 ISCRM Fellows

August 1, 2022 | Categories: Award, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , ,

State-funded ISCRM Fellowships enable students at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral level to advance research efforts aimed at addressing the root causes of diseases. Read More

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Grant for Escobar Lab Funds AML Research

July 13, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , , , ,

Thelma Escobar, PhD is collaborating with the Doulatov Lab and the Stem Cell Core to study how mutations in the gene NPM1 drive AML onset. Read More