Deep in the inner ear, at the base of the semicircular canals, sit tiny vestibular organs called crista ampullaris – or crista, for short. Aided by millions of sensory hair cells, crista help us maintain our gaze as we move through space, not unlike a stabilizer function in a modern camera. Without a healthy population of these hair cells, the brain struggles to remain oriented and to track its position relative to the surrounding world that our eyes and ears perceive. Read More
While prostate cancer may not be as deadly as other cancers – five-year survival rates can exceed 90%, especially if the disease is localized – incidence rates overall are increasing. For 2019 alone, The American Cancer Society predicts the United States will see roughly 175,000 new cases and 32,000 deaths associated with prostate cancer. Read More
Long before Hannele Ruohola-Baker became a leading stem cell researcher, she was a young hockey player skating on the frozen ponds of her native Finland. When she was ten years old, she lost a tooth to an errant puck. “I’d say that’s when my interest in regenerating teeth began,” says Dr. Ruohola-Baker, now a Professor of Biochemistry and Associate Director of the UW Medicine Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM). Read More
February 7, 2019 Of all the mysteries surrounding the beginning of human life, one question has drawn particular interest from researchers at the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine […] Read More
February 4, 2019 Heart failure is the leading cause of death in the world. In the United States alone, hundreds of thousands of people succumb to the disease every year, […] Read More
February 1, 2019 Experimental gene therapy cassettes for Duchenne muscular dystrophy have been modified to deliver better performance. The cassettes, which carry the therapy into muscle cells, contain newer versions […] Read More
Two ISCRM faculty members, Dr. Smita Yadav, Assistant Professor, Pharmacology and Dr. Ronald Kwon, Associate Professor, Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation […] Read More
January 25, 2019 Dr. Deok-Ho Kim, Associate Professor in Bioengineering and a Faculty Member of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM), has been awarded the inaugural 2018 […] Read More
“It can sometimes seem that research is moving too slowly to help real patients, but from the speakers tonight, it sounds like stem cell therapies are opening more avenues and […] Read More
Chuck Murry, MD, PhD Professor of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Bioengineering and Medicine/Cardiology "You are What You Eat: Using Metabolism to Drive hPSC-Cardiomyocyte Maturation" Ian Jan Graduate Student in Allbritton […]
Olivia Bermingham-McDonogh, PhD Professor of Biological Structure "Ebf1 in cochlear sensory development" Nick Petty GTRM Student from the Kiem Lab "Engraftment of cells to the central nervous system following hematopoietic […]
Shelly Sakiyama-Elbert, PhD Professor of Bioengineering Title TBD Fan Zhang, PhD Postdoctoral Scholar in Stevens lab "High-throughput in vivo screening of biomaterials for regenerative medicine"
