Exploring the Role of Mitochondria in Aging
October 5, 2026 | Categories: Core Faculty |ISCRM researchers are using new funding, tools, and partnerships to pursue potential ways to boost healthier aging in the brains, muscles, and immune systems of older adults. Read More
Seed Funding Leads to NIH Grant to Test Promising Gene Replacement Strategy
August 20, 2026 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty |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
Mark Bothwell and Yusha (Katie) Liu Receive Tietze Research Awards
June 1, 2026 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty |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
Bomsztyk Lab Receives Three New US Patents for Tools to Accelerate Research
May 27, 2026 | Categories: Core Faculty |The Bomsztyk Lab has received three new US patents for a suite of high-throughput tools designed to help researchers perform tissue analysis with greater speed, precision, and safety. Read More
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