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Key Upgrade to Protective Cell Delivery System Offers Greater Control with Light

August 27, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , ,

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

Three students wearing gloves and name tags sit at a lab table, examining animal organs laid out on trays. One student holds an organ, while the others smile and look on, engaging in a biology activity.

More than 40 ISCRM Researchers Travel to Chehalis for Summer STEM Camp

August 14, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Outreach

Over 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

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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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User-Friendly 3D-Printed Device Will Allow Researchers to Model Human Tissue With Increased Control and Complexity

April 30, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , ,

The device known as STOMP, developed by researchers from the Sniadecki and Theberge Labs, is small enough to fit on a human fingertip and is compatible with existing tissue engineering technology. Read More

Diagram showing cellular trafficking pathways involving SORL1, VPS26a, and VPS26b between the trans-Golgi network, early endosome, and lysosome, with notes on how SORL1 loss affects neurons and microglia.

How Cellular Dysfunction Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease Arises in Microglia  

April 17, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty | Tagged: ,

New research from the lab of ISCRM faculty member Jessica Young sheds light on the relationship between loss of SORL1 and Alzheimer's disease risk specifically in microglia. Read More

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New Platform for Tissue Engineers Reduces Guesswork in Bioink Formulation

April 11, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Uncategorized | Tagged: , ,

The Stevens Lab has unveiled a game-changing system to simultaneously screen dozens of varying compositions of bioinks for tissue and organ printing Read More

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Reh Lab Shows Conclusively that AAV-delivered Genes Can Regenerate Mammalian Retinal Neurons

March 24, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , , ,

Researchers in the Reh Lab have produced the clearest evidence yet that AAV-delivered genes can stimulate regeneration in the mammalian retina Read More

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How Small Molecules Have a Big Impact on the Heart

October 23, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , ,

Researchers at UW and UCSD use a multiscale modeling tool show how small infusions of myosin can have a big impact on the whole heart. Read More

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Modeling the Periodontal Ligament in 3D

October 22, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: ,

A new 3D modeling tool developed by the Sniadecki Lab and Dr. Tracy Popwics in the School of Dentistry could lead to regenerative therapies for periodontal diseases. 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