NIH-Funded Team Led by Berndt Lab Aims to Supercharge Protein Sensor Engineering
April 2, 2026 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |An $11 million multi-institutional grant from the NIH BRAIN Initiative will enable Berndt Lab engineer new red calcium and neuromodulator sensors, giving scientists much more powerful tools to study brain function and neurological disease. Read More
Stevens Lab Reconstructs Human Liver Tissue Cell Architecture in 3D
March 6, 2026 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |ISCRM faculty member Kelly Stevens is the senior author of a study, published in Science Advances, that unveils 3D reconstructions of human liver tissue offering unprecedented detail at the cellular level. Read More
ISCRM Researchers Use AI-Designed Protein to Produce More Mineralized Enamel
March 2, 2026 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |ISCRM researchers have shown that an AI-designed signaling protein (known as a ligand) can be used to mature ameloblasts capable of secreting more mineralized enamel, representing another important step forward for regenerative dentistry. Read More
Pairing Biomaterials and Designed Protein Technologies Offers Scientists Increased Control of Intracellular Processes
December 12, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |The use of computational protein engineering technology to engineer transient, membrane-less organelles inside living cells is the subject of a new study led by the DeForest Research Group in collaboration with the Baker Lab. Read More
How Studying Cell Fitness in the Early Human Embryo Could Enhance Cancer, Fertility, and Regenerative Medicine Research
December 3, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty |Dr. Min (Mia) Yang has received an NIH Director’s New Innovator Award that will enable her lab to shed light on the dynamics of chromosomal instability during a narrow, but formative window of time in the early human embryo. Read More
New $8.6M NIH RC2 Grant for an Interdisciplinary Team of ISCRM Faculty.
October 6, 2025 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty |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
Helper or Culprit: Re-Examining the Role of Fibroblasts in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
September 11, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |In a paper published in Science, a multidisciplinary ISCRM research team of biologists, engineers, and physicians shows that fibroblasts, often thought of as helpers, may weaken the heart by causing a harmful cycle of stiffening and scarring. Read More
Key Upgrade to Protective Cell Delivery System Offers Greater Control with Light
August 27, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |The DeForest Research Group unveils a new tool, known as PhoCoil, that protects injected cells as they travel to their destination and gives scientists greater control over them once they arrive. Read More
More than 40 ISCRM Researchers Travel to Chehalis for Summer STEM Camp
August 14, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, OutreachOver the course of two science-packed days in a summer STEM camp, dozens of ISCRM trainees and faculty members led activities focused on organ physiology, DNA, biomaterials, the neuromuscular system, tissue regeneration, and much more. Read More
Meet the 2025 Tietze Award Winners
May 6, 2025 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |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