MSBL Receives NIH Grant to Expand DEIA Mentorship
October 4, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research |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
Exploring Regenerative Potential in Zebrafish and Humans
September 27, 2022 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |A study from the Musculoskeletal Systems Biology Lab sheds a light on the characteristics of zebrafish cells that are able to differentiate from progenitor cells into bone cells, and then revert back to a progenitor state. Read More
ISCRM Travels to Chehalis for STEM Camp
September 12, 2022 | Categories: Core Faculty |More than 45 ISCRM faculty, students, and staff traveled to Chehalis to lead two days of a UW STEM camp offered to more than 50 Lewis County high school students. Read More
Modeling a Muscle Disease in 3D
August 17, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |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
Grant for Escobar Lab Funds AML Research
July 13, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research |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
Boyle Lab Leads Effort to Improve Stroke Risk Assessment
July 5, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research |ISCRM faculty member Patrick Boyle has received a five-year, $2.9 million grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute to improve outcomes for stroke patients by identifying and testing individualized strategies for diagnosing and treating strokes. Read More
Laura Crisa and Farid Moussavi-Harami Receive Tietze Awards
June 3, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty |Laura Crisa, MD, PhD and Farid Moussavi-Harami, MD have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust that will help fuel promising research underway in their labs. Read More
Regulating Cells With Designed Proteins
March 1, 2022 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |ISCRM researchers have developed a tool to selectively control the PRC2 complex – an epigenetic regulator that influences cell fate across multiple stages of development. That tool is a computer-designed protein binder engineered in partnership with the Institute for Protein Design (IPD). Read More
Kelly Stevens Elected to American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering
February 18, 2022 | Categories: Announcements, Core Faculty |Stevens, an assistant professor of bioengineering and of laboratory medicine and pathology, was selected for her work on pioneering approaches to map and replicate human tissues to advance bioengineered organs toward clinical therapy. Read More
Davis Lab Examines a Protein With a Key Role in Scarring
February 16, 2022 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |In a study that came with some unexpected findings, ISCRM researchers reveal new details about the role an RNA binding protein (MBNL1) plays in the steps that lead to scarring in the heart. Read More