Month: September 2018

SCRMC member Jacques Galipeau, MD, the Don and Marilyn Anderson Professor in Oncology and director of the Program for Advanced Cell Therapy (PACT), became the inaugural associate dean for therapeutics development on September 1. An …

Twenty years after the University of Wisconsin–Madison’s James Thomson derived the first human embryonic stem cell lines (ESC), his revolutionary discovery is just beginning to emerge on the clinical landscape. To date, a handful of …

While we will miss Bill Murphy in a leadership role in the SCRMC, we wish him luck in his new endeavors — as Chair of the new Forward BIO Initiative.

In 1998, UW–Madison developmental biologist James Thomson introduced the world to the first laboratory-derived human embryonic stem cells. His lab’s accomplishment underpins the new field of regenerative medicine, and the all-purpose cells are used worldwide …