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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.

A team is led by SCRMC member Shaoqin Gong, a professor of biomedical engineering at the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (WID) and an expert in creating nanomedicines for human health is joining the National Institutes for Health (NIH)’s Somatic Cell Genome Editing Consortium to overcome one of the biggest barriers to such treatments: safely and effectively delivering CRISPR genome editing machinery to the right cells. She and her collaborators, professor of neuroscience Subhojit Roy (SCRMC member), assistant professor of biomedical engineering Krishanu Saha (SCRMC member), and Marina Emborg (SCRMC member) and Jon Levine of the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center are developing nanoparticles capable of delivering CRISPR to neurons in the brain to treat neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s disease.

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. …

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, …