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ISCRM Faculty Member featured in The Scientist

December 1, 2015 | Categories: Announcements | Tagged: , , ,

The work of ISCRM faculty member, Casey Childers, on a gene therapy in children with a rare and fatal muscle weakness disorder called X-linked myotubular myopathy was highlighted in a Dec. 1, […] Read More

Drs. Ruohola-Baker

Changes in metabolites can regulate earliest stages of development

November 16, 2015 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , , ,

Changes in cellular metabolites have been shown to regulate embryonic stem cell development at the earliest stages of life. Metabolites are simple compounds generated during life-sustaining chemical activities in cells. […] Read More

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Mini-kidney organoids re-create disease in lab dishes

October 23, 2015 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , , , ,

Stem-cell biology and gene editing advances offer hope for kidney regeneration, drug discovery Mini-kidney organoids that re-create human kidney disease have now been grown in laboratory petri dishes. The achievement, […] Read More

Shiv Bhandari

$10M award to enable trials for Heart Regeneration Program

October 21, 2015 | Categories: Announcements | Tagged: , , , ,

Washington Research Foundation invests in UW Medicine stem-cell therapy to restore heart muscle A $10 million investment from the Washington Research Foundation will enable UW Medicine scientists to begin clinical […] Read More

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ISCRM’s Founding Director to receive UW Medicine’s Lifetime Innovator Award

October 20, 2015 | Categories: Announcements | Tagged: , ,

ISCRM is pleased to share that Dr. Randy Moon will receive the UW Medicine Lifetime Innovator Award at an event on November 5th. This annual event celebrates the work of outstanding researchers, inventors […] Read More

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Deok-Ho Kim named 2015 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering

September 30, 2015 | Categories: Announcements | Tagged: , , ,

ISCRM’s Deok-Ho Kim, Assistant Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at University of Washington, has been named a 2015 Young Innovator of Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) by the Biomedical […] Read More

Ntombi

Struggling to save black rhinos, scientists are crowdfunding to preserve their DNA

July 13, 2015 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , , , ,

Ntombi is a six-year-old black rhino from South Africa, one of around 5,000 black rhinos left in the wild. She’s also the starting point for what a team of scientists hope to […] Read More

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Congratulations to Faculty Award Winner Pam Becker, MD, PhD

July 10, 2015 | Categories: Announcements | Tagged: ,

Congratulations to ISCRM’s Pam Becker, who was selected as the 2015 Faculty Award winner by the graduating Hematology/Oncology fellows at the annual fellow’s graduation ceremony that took place Monday, June […] Read More

Drs. Cole DeForest and Akio Kobayashi

Congratulations 2015 Tietze Research Award Recipients

June 24, 2015 | Categories: Announcements | Tagged:

The Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) is pleased to announce the Spring 2015 winners of the Tietze Research Awards in Stem Cell Research, funded through a generous multi-year commitment by […] Read More

Kavitha T. Kuppusamy led a study of a molecular switch that promotes heart cell maturation.

Molecular switch matures heart cells derived from stem cells

May 12, 2015 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , , ,

Discovery may prove a major advance in the development of stem cell treatments for heart disease A molecular switch that seems to be essential  for embryonic heart cells to grow […] Read More

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