Center Update
Congratulations to the 2025 SCRMC Research Training Award Winners!
The SCRMC Research Training Awards Program provides unique, interdisciplinary training for five future leaders in stem cell and regenerative medicine research. Additionally, this program will foster interdisciplinary collaborations among campus investigators.
April 21, 2025
Congratulations to the 2025 Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Award Winners!
The Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center labs will welcome six new members this summer, as a part of the Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF)
April 21, 2025
Researchers ‘seq’ and find a way to make pig retinal cells to advance eye treatments
David Gamm, director of UW–Madison’s McPherson Eye Research Institute, professor of ophthalmology and visual sciences and a SCRMC member, says that stem cell replacement therapy using lab-grown photoreceptors is a promising strategy to combat retinal disease.
April 16, 2025
Weibo Cai elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Weibo Cai, PhD, professor of radiology and medical physics and SCRMC member, is one of seven UW–Madison scholars elected as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): The honor, presented annually by AAAS since 1874, recognizes fellows who are distinguished by their achievements across their disciplines.
March 27, 2025
Bioengineered arteries show promise for cardiovascular surgery
In a new study published in Cell Reports Medicine, UW–Madison researchers including Igor Slukvin, a SCRMC member and professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, created a universal, small diameter, vascular graft using stem cell-derived arterial endothelial cells (AECs) that could advance the field of vascular bypass surgery.
March 10, 2025
Portia is primed for battle: How a postdoctoral research associate is helping to harness the human immune system to fight cancer
Harnessing the human body’s power to combat cancer is all in a day’s work for University of Wisconsin–Madison postdoctoral research associate, Portia Smith, PhD. Whether she is engineering white blood cells to fight tumors or exploring the mechanisms behind the deadliest forms of cancer, Smith is determined to help the human immune system win the battle against cancer.
March 3, 2025
Experimental cell therapy trial treats first Sjögren’s disease patient
The first person in the world to receive a dose of a novel cell therapy for a symptom of the immune disorder Sjögren’s disease has been treated during a clinical trial. The research is being led by Sara McCoy, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine, and the UW Program for Advanced Cell Therapy, which is a joint venture between the UW School of Medicine and Public Health and UW Health.
February 24, 2025
SCRMC investigators will advance the science of blood stem cell biology through five novel projects
Five innovative projects studying blood stem cells are currently underway at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Led by Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center (SCRMC) investigators and supported by a gift from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF), these projects will investigate a wide variety of blood-based processes, from the role of inflammation in blood cell genome function and blood cell-derived pathologies e.g., cancer, to what impacts blood cell aging.
February 4, 2025
SCRMC researchers to investigate mechanisms and models related to Spina Bifida and Fragile X Syndrome
Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center (SCRMC) investigators at the University of Wisconsin–Madison will be engaging in two novel, neural research projects thanks to a gift from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF).
January 29, 2025
SCRMC research featured in The New York Times
A recent NYT article exploring the impact of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) features the work of SCRMC member Marina Emborg, who has been researching a genetic mutation linked to FTD.
December 22, 2024
The Annual Report is now available online!
We invite you to explore the 2024 Annual Report.
December 17, 2024
The SCRMC is now on Bluesky!
We invite you to view our updates on Bluesky, LinkedIn, or Facebook @uwmadisonstemcell.
December 10, 2024
Human stem cell-derived heart cells are safe in monkeys, could treat congenital heart disease
Heart muscle cells grown from stem cells show promise in monkeys with a heart problem that typically results from a heart defect sometimes present at birth in humans, according to new research from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (SCRMC members) and Mayo Clinic.
November 14, 2024
