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ISCRM Stem Cell Core Shares ISSCR Public Service Award

March 13, 2026 | Categories: Award | Tagged: ,

A global network of stem cell cores that includes ISCRM’s Tom and Sue Ellison Stem Cell Core has received a 2026 Public Service Award from the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR).  Read More

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ISCRM Researchers Use AI-Designed Protein to Produce More Mineralized Enamel

March 2, 2026 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , , , , , ,

ISCRM researchers have shown that an AI-designed signaling protein (known as a ligand) can be used to mature ameloblasts capable of secreting more mineralized enamel, representing another important step forward for regenerative dentistry. Read More

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New $8.6M NIH RC2 Grant for an Interdisciplinary Team of ISCRM Faculty.

October 6, 2025 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty | Tagged: , , , , , , ,

An interdisciplinary team of ISCRM researchers has received an $8.6 million grant from the NIH to accelerate cell therapies for diabetes by achieving more reliable and reproducible generation of fully functional pancreatic islets from multiple stem cell lines. Read More

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Finding a Sweet Spot for Cultivating Embryonic Cell Lines

January 2, 2024 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , ,

Research from Julie Mathieu and Carol Ware adds to understanding of human early development and the clinical utility of late naïve hESC derived directly from blastocysts. Read More

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Meet the 2023 Tietze Award Winners

June 1, 2023 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research, Uncategorized | Tagged: , , ,

Julie Mathieu, PhD and Niclas Bengtsson, PhD have received prestigious awards from the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust that will help fuel promising research underway in their labs. Read More

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Grant for Escobar Lab Funds AML Research

July 13, 2022 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: , , , , ,

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

Julie Mathieu

New Investigator Award for Julie Mathieu Funds Collaborative Cancer Research

June 11, 2021 | Categories: Award, Research | Tagged: , , , ,

Fueled in part by a New Investigator Award from the Cancer Consortium, ISCRM faculty member Julie Mathieu, PhD is partnering with scientists at the Institute for Protein Design and Fred Hutch to develop new treatments for renal cell carcinoma. Read More

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Supercharging Antibodies for Better Medicine

April 2, 2021 | Categories: Uncategorized | Tagged: , , , ,

Researchers from the Ruohola-Baker Lab have collaborated with the Institute for Protein Design on a technology in which designed proteins assemble antibodies in nanocage structures, increasing their potency against cancer, COVID-19, and other diseases. Read More

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Aided by Stem Cells, ISCRM Researchers Identify a Suspect in the Case of Infertility

February 7, 2019 | Categories: Core Faculty, Research | Tagged: ,

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