A team led by David Scadden, MD, director of the MGH Center for Regenerative Medicine and co-founder and co-director of the HSCI, will work with investigators led by Jay Schneider, MD, PhD, and Eric Olson, MD, PhD, University of Texas Southwest Medical Center, to examine how the environment in which heart, lung and bone marrow cells develop affects the fate of progenitor cells.
Jeanne Loring, director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at The Scripps Research Institute, applauds the work being conducted between academia and for-profit entities today.
Legislation, funding and research initiatives, such as an agenda to create a center for regenerative medicine at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, are also important to let businesses know that Massachusetts wants them, said Kevin O'Sullivan, president of Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives, an economic development agency in Worcester.
The building, as well as the consortium running it, will be named after its biggest private benefactor and called the Sanford Center for Regenerative Medicine.
DaVinci Biosciences LLC in collaboration with University of Utah, Southern California Center for Regenerative Medicine and Omni Hospital in Ecuador, announce the discovery of a previously unidentified stem cell population from adult human testis in Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (BBRC), an international peer-reviewed journal focused on the rapid dissemination of timely and significant experimental results in diverse fields of biological research.
professor at Harvard University, co-director and co-founder of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and director of the Center for Regenerative Medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, has broken new ground in understanding how blood-forming stem cells, called hematopoietic stem cells, and other adult stem cells are maintained in the adult body in specialized niches and in developing therapies that exploit this biology to modulate adult stem cells in vivo.
The CBR Center for Regenerative Medicine to Help Initiate Hearing Loss Study Cord Blood Registry also announced today that it is in discussions with three leading medical institutions to launch a clinical study that will evaluate the use of a child's own newborn stem cells to treat hearing loss caused by an accident or severe illness.
