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.
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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 …
A new way to wind the development clock of cardiac muscle cells
These days, scientists can collect a few skin or blood cells, wipe out their identities, and reprogram them to become virtually any other kind of cell in the human body, from neurons to heart cells.
The journey from skin cell to another type of functional cell involves converting them into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), which are similar to the developmentally immature stem cells found in embryos, and then coaxing them to mature into something different.
‘Bad guy’ fibrocytes could help rebuild damaged tissue
‘Bad guy’ fibrocytes could help rebuild damaged tissue
May 8, 2019 By Susan Lampert Smith
Could a blood cell type responsible for scarring and diseases such as pulmonary fibrosis be repurposed to help engineer healthy tissue?
A new study by a University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health researcher shows that someday, fibrocytes may be used for regenerative therapies for people who need to have their vocal folds or other tissues rebuilt after damage or loss.