A heart attack causes a loss of muscle and leaves the heart with a scar that does not contract and so impairs the heart’s pumping function, says Tim Kamp, professor of medicine who is co-leader …
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Tiny capsules packed with gene-editing tools offer alternative to viral delivery of gene therapy
New tools for editing genetic code offer hope for new treatments for inherited diseases, some cancers, and even stubborn viral infections. But the typical method for delivering gene therapies to specific tissues in the body …
Award-winning Grad Student Research Could Benefit Industry
Three members of UW-Madison Mechanical Engineering Professor, and SCRMC faculty member, Lih-Sheng (Tom) Turng’s research group at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery won top awards for their exceptional research papers at the Society of Plastics Engineers annual technical conference in Detroit in March 2019.
Jacques Galipeau: Cellular pharmaceuticals meet the Wisconsin Idea
Traditionally, drug development arises from a university discovery for which a pharmaceutical company acquires the rights and thereafter navigates the path to market approval. This process of shepherding a therapeutic discovery to become a U.S. …
WARF Accelerator Award
SCRMC Faculty Member Peiman Hematti has been awarded a WARF Accelerator Project titled, “Development of Therapeutic Macrophages for Radiation Injuries.”
Statement from the Department of Health and Human Services: HHS update on fetal tissue research
Statement from the Department of Health and Human Services In September 2018, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) terminated a contract between Advanced Bioscience Resources, Inc. and the Food and Drug Administration that …
Man with severe autoimmune disease gets stem cell transplant at UW
SCRMC Faculty member Dr. Peiman Hematti runs the lab involved in a procedure of stem cell transplants for scleroderma (a chronic connective tissue disease generally classified as one of the autoimmune rheumatic diseases) at UW-Hospital, after a national study last year found it worked better than drugs.
New Technique Enables Versatile 3D Control Over Stem Cell-Derived Organoids
University of Wisconsin-Madison engineering professors, and SCRMC Faculty members, Randolph Ashton and Lih-Sheng “Tom” Turng have partnered on a project to create hydrogel molds that will allow researchers to more precisely control the three-dimensional structures of organoids. They detailed their work in a recent paper in the journal Acta Biomaterialia.
Two professors honored with Shaw Scientist Awards to support innovative research
Assistant professor of neuroscience and SCRMC faculty member, Darcie Moore, is one of two recipients of 2019 Shaw Scientist Awards from the Greater Milwaukee Foundation. Moore is studying adult stems cells in an area of the brain important for learning and memory. A decrease in these cells over time is associated with cognitive decline, so Moore is exploring how stress and aging change the process by which the cells divide.
Madison-area stem cell clinics part of ‘gray market’ under increased scrutiny
At least three Madison-area clinics are offering stem cell injections for joint pain, joining hundreds of clinics around the country promoting stem cell therapies for a variety of disorders — some of which federal regulators have tried to …