ISCRM Welcomes Thelma Escobar
May 6, 2021 | Categories: UncategorizedThelma Escobar, PhD, joins the University of Washington as an Assistant Professor of Biochemistry and an ISCRM faculty member Read More
Study Yields New Clue to Strokes of Undetermined Source
May 4, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |Simulations shed light on heart-scarring similarities among patients with atrial fibrillation and those who had embolic stroke but no atrial fibrillation. Read More
ISCRM Researchers Use Rainbow Reporters to Examine Proliferation of Engrafted Heart Cells
April 19, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty, Heart Regeneration, Research, Uncategorized |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
Supercharging Antibodies for Better Medicine
April 2, 2021 | Categories: Uncategorized |Researchers from the Ruohola-Baker Lab have collaborated with the Institute for Protein Design on a technology in which designed proteins assemble antibodies in nanocage structures, increasing their potency against cancer, COVID-19, and other diseases. Read More
Fighting Racial Inequity by Funding Black Scientists
January 26, 2021 | Categories: UncategorizedMore than 260 women faculty in biomedical engineering call on NIH to address funding disparities that discriminate against Black scientists Read More
Vincenzo Cirulli Elected to the Board of Directors of the Diabetes Research Connection
November 23, 2020 | Categories: Uncategorized
DeForest Lab Pioneers 4D Biomimicry Systems With Ingenuity, Collaboration, and an NIH Grant
October 1, 2020 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Uncategorized |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
Stevens Lab Unveils Novel System for Regulating Gene Expression with Heat
September 30, 2020 | Categories: Research, Uncategorized |Researchers hoping to create disease models or regenerate organs need systems that precisely mimic the degree of complexity found in the natural world. The Stevens Lab is helping to answer the call with a new system that regulates gene expression patterns using heat Read More
Microgels, Middle School, and the UW Grad Student Who Makes Science Matter
January 4, 2019 | Categories: Blog, Uncategorized