Geoffrey Lomax, DrPH, joined the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in 2005. He is the Associate Director for ...

For Bruce Wisnicki and other Parkinson’s patients, the benefit of most Parkinson’s medications might be summed up with the bromide: “This too shall pass.” Because of the degenerative nature of the ...

The goal of this project is to identify small molecules that stimulate cardiomyocyte differentiation from stem cells. The strategy is to use embryonic stem ESC)-derived progenitors to screen for ...

The CSUN CIRM Bridges3.0 Stem Cell Research & Therapy Training Program provides a practical laboratory training experience in stem cell biology with integrated educational seminars and mentored ...

Anna Kuehl was in her mid-30’s when she was diagnosed with an early form of macular degeneration (AMD), a condition that results in the loss of central vision and is the leading cause of vision loss ...

Marina Bershteyn, Sonja Broer, Mansi Parekh, Yves Maury, Steven Havlicek, Sonja Kriks, Luis Fuentealba, Seonok Lee, Robin Zhou, Geetha Subramanyam, Meliz Sezan, Eric ...

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, is a particularly nasty degenerative disease where motor neurons, the brain nerve cells that control movement, are damaged and ...

Hala Madanat, PhD, is the Vice President for Research and Innovation at San Diego State University and Albert W. Johnson Distinguished Professor of Public Health. Dr. Madanat stewards the university’s ...

Tissue engineering can provide in vitro models for drug testing, disease modeling, and perhaps someday, tissue/organ replacements. For building 3D heart tissue, the alignment of cardiac cells or ...

Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome (WAS) is a rare X-linked recessive immunodeficiency disorder of childhood that is caused by mutations in the WAS gene. WAS encodes WASp, a protein that is known to function in ...

South San Francisco, CA, September 27, 2024 – The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), one of the world’s largest institutes dedicated to regenerative medicine, announced key ...