Protein-Based Biomaterial Protects Injected Cells, Improves Engraftment
March 13, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |Research led by Cole DeForest, PhD in collaboration with Chuck Murry, MD, PhD and Kelly Stevens, PhD details a new protein-based biomaterial that could help improve engraftment and function following injectable cell therapies. Read More
$7.3 Million NIH Grant Funds Effort to Advance Kidney Microphysiological Testing Platforms
February 12, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |NIH Funding will allow ISCRM faculty members Ed Kelly and Beno Freedman to lead the effort to advance kidney-on-a-chip and organoid testing technology and submit a 3D engineered platform for FDA approval. Read More
Kueh Lab Studies How and When Immune Cells Form Pathogen Memories
February 1, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |Research from the Kueh Lab shows infection-fighting blood cells can change course to become long-lived memory cells instead of short-lived killer cells. Read More
Study from Kueh Lab Describes Surprising Agility in T Cell Threat Assessment
January 11, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |New research from the Kueh Lab, published in the journal PNAS, reveals surprising insights about the signaling circuitry that allows T cells to elicit tailored responses to a diverse range of threats and proposes a model for future study. Read More
Finding a Sweet Spot for Cultivating Embryonic Cell Lines
January 2, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |Research from Julie Mathieu and Carol Ware adds to understanding of human early development and the clinical utility of late naïve hESC derived directly from blastocysts. Read More
Welcome Yusha “Katie” Liu
| Categories: Core Faculty, Research |Dr. Yusha “Katie” Liu joined ISCRM in 2023 as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery Read More
Zheng Lab Unveils Platform for Modeling Cerebral Malaria in 3D
November 20, 2023 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |A new paper from the Zheng Lab, published in Cell Reports, unveils a technique for probing cerebral malaria inflammation in 3D engineered human brain microvessels. Read More
Introducing Feini (Sylvia) Qu
September 22, 2023 | Categories: Core Faculty |ISCRM faculty member Feini (Sylvia) Qu will explore the cellular and molecular pathways of composite musculoskeletal tissue regeneration, especially the bones and connective tissues that link our limbs and joints. Read More
Stem Cell-derived Organoids Secrete Tooth Enamel Proteins
August 14, 2023 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |Researchers led by Hannele Ruohola-Baker have created organoids from stem cells that secrete the proteins that form the enamel that protects our teeth from damage and decay. Read More
FDA Approves Gene Therapy with ISCRM Origins
July 5, 2023 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |The FDA has approved a first-ever gene therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy based in part on technology developed by UW Medicine/ISCRM Researchers Read More