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ISCRM Faculty Member Featured on UWTV

May 22, 2014 | Categories: Announcements | Tagged: , ,

Dr. Phil Horner, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at the UW, is working on a unique approach to restoring limb function after chronic spinal cord injury. Dr. Horner and […] Read More

Dr. Michael Laflamme

Scientists regenerate heart muscle in primates

April 30, 2014 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , ,

Findings bring stem cell therapy for damaged hearts closer to clinical trials In a major advance, researchers at the University of Washington have successfully restored damaged heart muscle of monkeys […] Read More

ISCRM Faculty Member, Dr. Phil Horner, Featured on UW|360

April 24, 2014 | Categories: Research | Tagged: ,

Phil Horner, PhD, Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery at the UW, is working on a unique approach to restoring limb function after chronic spinal cord injury. Dr. Horner and his […] Read More

TEDx Talk: Transforming the approach to cancer

March 27, 2014 | Categories: Announcements | Tagged: ,

Dr. Tony Blau, ISCRM’s Co-Director, recently presented a talk at TEDxTacoma focused on his Center for Cancer Innovation. A transcript of the video can be found here. Read More

Julie Mathieu (left)

Proteins that control energy use necessary to form stem cells

March 21, 2014 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , , ,

Findings advance efforts to reprogram mature cells for organ repair Two proteins that control how cells break down glucose play a key role in forming human stem cells, University of […] Read More

Dr. Carol Ware at work in her laboratory at the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

New cell line should accelerate embryonic stem cell research

March 10, 2014 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , ,

These cells appear at the earliest stages of an embryo and can form all human cell types University of Washington researchers have created a line of human embryonic stem cells […] Read More

"The contribution of the women enrolling in this trial is invaluable and their decision to participate

Study’s ‘panomic’ approach to advanced breast cancer

March 3, 2014 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , , ,

Trial enrollees sought; effort involves sharing tumors’ responses to therapy in massive public online database. Ten women with advanced breast cancer will participate in one of the most intensive clinical trials ever […] Read More

UW researchers developing patch for damaged hearts

February 14, 2014 | Categories: Research | Tagged: ,

Five million Americans are living with heart disease, heart failure and 715,000 will have a heart attack this year. Now researchers at the University of Washington are working on a […] Read More

Erica Jonlin is regulatory manager for several planned gene-transfer and stem-cell clinical trials to be conducted in the University of Washington School of Medicine.

Differing U.S. standards stymie stem-cell research

February 6, 2014 | Categories: Announcements | Tagged: , , ,

NIH, FDA policies appear to make most federally funded embryonic stem cell lines unsuitable for clinical use Since the discovery of human embryonic stem cells, scientists have had high hopes […] Read More

Faculty headshot of Martin K. Childers, PhD

Gene therapy leads to robust improvements in animal model of fatal muscle disease

January 22, 2014 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , ,

January 22, 2014 Preclinical studies show that gene therapy can improve muscle strength in small- and large-animal models of a fatal congenital childhood disease know as X-linked myotubular myopathy. The […] Read More

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