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Watch a Brief Video About ISCRM

September 17, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research

Watch this brief video about the collaborative research community harnessing advances in biology and engineering to confront the root causes of disease. Read More

ISCRM Researchers Part of $56 Million Grant to Fund Alzheimer’s Research

September 3, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty | Tagged: , ,

The five-year grant awarded to the Kaiser Adult Changes in Thought study (ACT) will fund six cores and three interrelated research projects. Read More

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W.M. Keck Foundation Funds Liver Research in Stevens Lab

September 2, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty | Tagged: ,

A three-year grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation will fund a three-year effort by the Stevens Lab to shed light on the role of mechanical factors in liver regeneration. Read More

Kelly Stevens Selected for National Academies New Voices Cohort

July 21, 2021 | Categories: Announcements, Core Faculty | Tagged: ,

ISCRM faculty member Kelly Stevens is one of 22 early career leaders nationwide selected by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (SEM) for the 2021-2023 New Voices Cohort Read More

Kelly Stevens, Jay Shendure, and Cole Trapnell Detail Spatial-Mapping Technology

July 2, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , , ,

UW researchers have created a technique to build single-cell resolution spatial maps of the molecular profiles of mammal cell types Read More

Study Yields New Clue to Strokes of Undetermined Source

May 4, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , ,

Simulations shed light on heart-scarring similarities among patients with atrial fibrillation and those who had embolic stroke but no atrial fibrillation. Read More

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ISCRM Researchers Use Rainbow Reporters to Examine Proliferation of Engrafted Heart Cells

April 19, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty, Heart Regeneration, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , , , ,

ISCRM investigators use rainbow cell technology to demonstrate that injected heart cells proliferate, a finding that could help researchers enhance the efficacy of cell therapy for heart disease and other conditions. Read More

Engineering Microvasculature in Full 3D Complexity

March 4, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , ,

ISCRM researchers led by Ying Zheng, PhD, detail a method to generate microvaculature in full 3D complexity using multiphoton ablation and laser-guided cellularization Read More

DeForest Lab Pioneers 4D Biomimicry Systems With Ingenuity, Collaboration, and an NIH Grant

October 1, 2020 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Uncategorized | Tagged: , ,

In reality show terms, Cole DeForest and his team manufacture tiny bio-worlds staged to mimic living systems, force an eclectic cast of cells to cohabitate, apply light, heat, and chemicals to stir up drama, then record it all with sophisticated monitoring equipment. What they see on the tiniest scales, could have major implications for medicine. Read More