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SCI faculty Walter Low (Neurosurgery) and Susan Keirstead (Integrative Biology and Physiology) collaborated with colleagues Theoden Netoff (Biomedical Engineering) and Jian-Ping Wang (Electrical and...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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-...

In this work, our emerging understanding of proliferation and maturation of cardiomyocytes is described with an emphasis on the fact that both processes are necessary but do not seem to be able...

During development stem cells are induced to differentiate and give rise to structures like limbs as a result of chemical gradients established in the tissues.  Hiroshi Nakato,...

SCI faculty member Rita Perlingeiro is at the forefront of research on the generation of skeletal muscle stem cells from human induced pluriptotent stem cells.  These cells...

Congenital cardiac diseases are among the most common birth defects and can have devastating consequences perinatally as well as throughout the lifetime of the individual.  A clear understanding...

Skeletal muscle stem cells are responsible for muscle repair after exercise or injury and are a potential source of cells for transplantation therapies for individuals suffering from muscle diseases...

Cancer stem cells found in tumors can evade chemotherapeutic treatments and go on to reestablish and/or metastasize and form new tumors in other tissues.  Paolo Provenzano and...

The shortage of organs and tissues for transplants has led researchers in the Stem Cell Institute to investigate the possibility of making human organs in animals by injecting human pluripotent stem...

Engineered human tissue models have been proposed as a means to test the performance of medical devices and the impact of device intervention on tissue health and function.

Hurler's Syndrome is caused by a mutation in a gene (IDUA) that encodes an enzyme that is responsible for clearing cellular waste products, and hence prevents accumulation of toxic...

Walter Low, SCI faculty member, Ling Li, and Maxim Cheeran received a 5-year NIH grant to study the acute and long-term impact of SARS-CoV2 infection on cognitive function and neuropathology in...

Dr. Sarkar's biomedical engineering team has leveraged machine learning and high-throughput experiments to control the speed at which therapeutic cells respond to their environment.  Read the...

The Predoctoral Infuse Awards program was initiated by the Stem Cell Institute in May 2021. The program aims to create a community of PhD trainees and faculty who meet regularly to discuss...

For the period 2022 to 2024, eight Stem Cell Institute Faculty members have received Regenerative Medicine Minnesota research grants.

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