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Former Stem Cell Institute Director, Jonathan Slack, PhD Awarded Wolpert Medal by the British Society for Developmental Biology
The Wolpert Medal "is presented to an individual who has made extraordinary contributions to the teaching and communication of Developmental Biology". Jonathan Slack, who was director of the...
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SCI Researchers are Genetically Engineering Underexplored Gamma delta T-cells to Attack Solid Tumors
SCI faculty member Beau Webber recently received a CURE Childhood Cancer grant award to test genetically engineered gamma delta T-cells against solid tumors, like osteosarcoma, a...
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SCI Faculty Mark Osborn has been Awarded Saint Baldrick Foundation Funding to Support Gene and Cell Engineering Research
Dr. Osborn will use this grant to continue his work on engineering chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells that will more specifically target cancerous B-cells while minimizing damage to healthy...
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SCI Innovation Space Update
The vision for the McGuire Translational Research Facility (MTRF), the building that is home to the Stem Cell Institute, was always that it would be a place where promising medical research would be...
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University of Minnesota and Mayo Clinic Collaborative Retreat on Organoids and Engineered Tissue Models
On April 18, 2023 the University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute and Institute for Engineering in Medicine partnered with the Mayo Clinic Cells 2 Cures Initiative to sponsor a one-day retreat-...
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