There was a time when Eric Shusta’s lab was more reliant on the local butcher shop than you might expect.
To learn more about the blood-brain barrier — the cellular wall between the open ocean of the bloodstream and the protected confines of the brain — and how to trick the body into letting foreign molecules (like drugs for neurological disease) through the barrier’s gates, Shusta needed brains.
WARF announces annual grant figures and Innovation Award winners including SCRMC members Lih-Sheng Turng,Mechanical Engineering, and Melissa Skala, Morgridge Institute for Research / Biomedical Engineering.
As gene editing therapies for macular degeneration and other visual disorders work their way into clinical trials, the University of Wisconsin–Madison is on the forefront of research into making sure they are safe and effective. …
Through the work of the UW-Madison Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center , UW–Madison has remained at the forefront of the field. Launched in May 2007, the center serves as an intellectual and collaborative hub for a broad-based, interdisciplinary research community. Today, more than 600 scientists and students in almost 100 SCMRC labs around campus are working, teaching and studying in the field.
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 …
The Harrington Discovery Institute has selected Krishanu Saha, an assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering, as one of two 2018 Gund-Harrington Scholars. The institute cited Saha’s work using gene editing nanomedicines to correct retinal mutations, …
August 15, 2018 | By Jordana Lenon Beginning this fall, Bill Murphy, Ph.D., Harvey D. Spangler professor of biomedical engineering and professor of orthopedics and rehabilitation, joins a new state biomanufacturing initiative to advance stem cell, …