Scientific Exchange Fosters Cross-Institute Collaboration
February 3, 2026 | Categories: Research |In late January, nearly 60 researchers from ISCRM and the Molecular Engineering and Sciences Institute gathered to foster collaborations aimed at accelerating disease research through improved modeling technologies. Read More
Dr. Jennifer Davis Named New ISCRM Director
October 6, 2025 | Categories: Announcements |Exciting leadership news! Dr. Jennifer Davis has been named the new Director of the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Read More
Helper or Culprit: Re-Examining the Role of Fibroblasts in Dilated Cardiomyopathy
September 11, 2025 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized |In a paper published in Science, a multidisciplinary ISCRM research team of biologists, engineers, and physicians shows that fibroblasts, often thought of as helpers, may weaken the heart by causing a harmful cycle of stiffening and scarring. Read More
WRF Fellowships for Two ISCRM Undergraduate Researchers
November 7, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Heart Regeneration |Undergraduate student researchers Dessirée Ortaç and Eesha Murali have received Washington Research Foundation Fellowships that will support their time in the lab through the end of the 2023 school year. Read More
Davis Lab Examines a Protein With a Key Role in Scarring
February 16, 2022 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research |In a study that came with some unexpected findings, ISCRM researchers reveal new details about the role an RNA binding protein (MBNL1) plays in the steps that lead to scarring in the heart. 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
ISCRM Researchers Pursue Personalized Medicine for Heart Failure
December 3, 2020 | Categories: Award, Research |With a Collaborative Science Award from the American Heart Association Jen Davis, Farid Moussavi-Harami , and Tom Daniel are on a mission to develop new tools to help cardiologists personalize treatments for certain heart diseases too. Read More
Color-Coding Technology Reveals New Insights About Stem Cell Biology
July 29, 2020 | Categories: Research |Several years ago, Danny El-Nachef was given a mission to create a tool to observe and track how stem cells behaved during the earliest stages of human heart development. While the focus of the challenge was human biology, the x-factor in the solution came from the sea. Read More
Marie Davis and Yuliang Wang Receive Tietze Research Awards
April 10, 2020 | Categories: Announcements, Award |
ISCRM Faculty Shine a New Light on Scarring
October 12, 2018 | Categories: Research |Collaboration is the engine of scientific progress at UW Medicine and at the Institute of Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM), where 130 researchers are developing stem cell-based approaches to treat diseases affecting nearly every organ and system in the human body. Read More