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SCRMC faculty member Darcie Moore, professor of neuroscience; Nasia Safdar, professor of medicine; and Srivatsan “Vatsan” Raman, professor of biochemistry, will receive more than $6.8 million in total funding for studies that are unconventional yet carry the potential to transform the medical field. Unlike standard research project grants, the New Innovator awards do not require preliminary data and pay out in full in the first year of each five-year project so that work can move forward swiftly.

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, …

Jianhua Zhang, PhD, senior scientist, Cardiovascular Medicine, first learned about Marie Curie’s story and discoveries while studying chemistry in middle school. Years later, Dr. Zhang’s work is still guided by a quote from Curie: “Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”

“That’s my whole motivation, passion and interest in doing research, particularly now in the era of stem cell research,” said Dr. Zhang.

Every summer since 2007, students from some of the smallest high schools in Wisconsin have descended on the Morgridge Institute for Research at the University of Wisconsin–Madison for some big-time scientific immersion. The Morgridge Rural Summer Science …