News
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
Meet the 2022-2023 ISCRM Fellows
August 1, 2022 | Categories: Award, Research, Uncategorized |State-funded ISCRM Fellowships enable students at the undergraduate, graduate, and postdoctoral level to advance research efforts aimed at addressing the root causes of diseases. 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
Francisco Saavedra Cantillana is a Pew Latin American Fellow
June 30, 2022 | Categories: Award |Francisco Saavedra Cantillana PhD, a Postoc in the Escobar Lab, has been named one of ten 2022 Pew Latin American Fellows in the Biomedical Sciences. 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
Freedman Lab Explores the Role Cilia Play in Signaling, Cell Fate, and Disease Development
April 27, 2022 | Categories: Research |In the Freedman Lab, knocking out primary cilia reveals insights about the role the organelles play in cell fate and disease development. Read More
Deletion of Lamin B1 Linked to Nuclear Abnormalities Seen in Cancer
March 11, 2022 | Categories: Research, Uncategorized |Using gene-editing tools to decrease expression of lamin B1 in two stem cell models, the researchers show that deletion of lamin B1 causes change in stem cell function and nuclear shape – and contributes to leukemia progression. Read More
