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NIH Grant Advances Alzheimer’s Research – And Launches a Career

March 28, 2023 | Categories: Award, Core Faculty, Uncategorized | Tagged: , , ,

Tiara Schwarze-Taufiq, an ISCRM undergraduate fellow in 2021, is now a Research Scientist in the Young Lab thanks to an NIH R21 grant made possible in part by her own research. Read More

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ISCRM Researchers Part of $56 Million Grant to Fund Alzheimer’s Research

September 3, 2021 | Categories: Core Faculty | Tagged: , ,

The five-year grant awarded to the Kaiser Adult Changes in Thought study (ACT) will fund six cores and three interrelated research projects. Read More

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Young Lab Links Loss of SORL1 Gene to Increased Alzheimer’s Risk

June 2, 2020 | Categories: Research | Tagged: , , ,

To overcome the inherent challenges in studying the brain, one ISCRM team used stem cell technology to implicate a gene known as SORL1 in some types of Alzheimer’s and to shed new light on why many promising treatments for this disease have hit dead ends in clinical trials. Read More

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Stem-cell study points to new approach to Alzheimer’s disease

March 1, 2018 | Categories: Research | Tagged: ,

Improving the trafficking of cellular proteins in brain cells holds possibilities for new treatments and even prevention for Alzheimer’s disease, results of a new study suggest. Researchers found that a compound that enhances the shuttling of proteins within cells reduced the production of forerunners of two proteins implicated in brain cell death. Read More

Drs. Jessica Young and Kelly Stevens

Congratulations 2016 Tietze Research Award Recipients

October 3, 2016 | Categories: Announcements | Tagged: , , ,

The Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine (ISCRM) is pleased to announce the Summer 2016 winners of the Tietze Research Awards in Stem Cell Research, funded through a generous multi-year commitment […] Read More