To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy, +1-800-886-1762 Safety Studies Leading to FDA Application for Stem Cell Therapy in SMA will begin in early 2008 LIBERTYVILLE, Ill., Feb. 19 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Families of Spinal Muscular Atrophy FSMA; a stem cell scientist at University of California, Irvine UCI;...
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES has received $20 MILLION from billionaire Eli Broad for stem cell research. The donation will be used to purchase lab equipment, provide research grants and endow professorships.
University of California, Santa Cruz received a $1.2 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a new training program in the biology of stem cells. The UCSC program will be part of a three-year, $12.5 million institutewide stem cell research program to train predoctoral, postdoctoral and...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- The Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee ICOC today announced the first grant awards of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine CIRM. The awards will create the CIRM Training Program in Stem Cell Research, a three-year program to train pre-doctoral, post-doctoral and clinical fellows at 16 institutions across the...
EMERYVILLE, Calif. -- On Friday (8/5/05), the Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee ICOC for the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine CIRM will meet.WHO: Independent Citizens' Oversight Committee WHAT: Members of ICOC will consider recommendations from the Governance Subcommittee, updated...
Feb. 4--Dr. Marcus Grompe was searching for clues to treating a rare liver disease when he hit unexpected pay dirt. Grompe and others in his lab at Oregon Health Sciences University had developed a mutant mouse to study the human disease hereditary tyrosinemia Type...
By Bradley J. Fikes, North County Times, Escondido, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Bradley J. Fikes, North County Times, Escondido, Calif. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEM) reported today that its proprietary HuCNS-SC([R])product candidate purified human neural stem cells, when transplanted into a well-established animal model, can protect the retina from progressive degeneration. Retinal degeneration leads to loss of vision in diseases such as age-related macular degeneration and retinitis pigmentosa....
Stanford University broke ground Monday on a 200,000-square- foot, $200 million building that will become the nation's largest stem cell research facility. When it opens in 2010, the Lorry I. Lokey Stem Cell Research Building will house 600 scientists who specialize in the study of stem cells,...
Universities throughout California will soon embark on an unprecedented, $830 million building blitz to create laboratories for stem cell science. Financed with voter-approved bond money, the facilities will free scientists to do work opposed by the Bush administration. The construction boom is beginning at...
Universities throughout California will soon embark on an unprecedented, $830 million building blitz to create laboratories for stem cell science. Financed with voter-approved bond money, the facilities will free scientists to do work opposed by the Bush administration. The construction boom is beginning at...
SAN DIEGO -- A Notice of Allowance was issued to the University of California by the United States Patent & Trademark Office ("USPTO") for composition of matter claims pending in a patent application licensed by Cytori Therapeutics (NASDAQ: CYTX). The allowed claims cover a population of stem cells, progenitor cells...
European researchers say they've figured out how to coax sperm-producing testicular cells into embryonic-like stem cells. The findings are the latest in a flurry of published research that seeks to duplicate embryonic stem cell behavior and biology while sidestepping the political and ethical obstacles associated with their use. "The ability...
BOSTON -- Minerva Biotechnologies, a leading nanotechnology, cancer and stem cell development company today announced a major breakthrough in stem cell research. Minerva and collaborators at the University of California at Santa Barbara discovered that a single, new growth factor can not only support massive growth of human embryonic stem...
STANFORD, Calif. -- A fifth young scientist from the Stanford University School of Medicine has received funding from the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine through its efforts to foster the next generation of stem cell researchers. Ching-Pin Chang, MD, PhD, assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine, was awarded $3.1...
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- StemCells, Inc. (NASDAQ:STEM) today announced that it has accepted an invitation by the California Institute of Regenerative Medicine CIRM to present on Batten Disease at the upcoming meeting of CIRM's Independent Citizens Oversight Committee ICOC. At the meeting, Ann Tsukamoto, Ph.D., the Company's Chief Operating Officer,...
Cytori Says Lawsuit Doesn't Hamper Business: A major court ruling in favor of privately held stem cell company Artecel Inc. affirmed the company's rights to stem cells derived from fat tissue, a method also employed by Cytori Therapeutics. Artecel is a privately held biotech company involved in stem...
STANFORD, Calif. -- Stanford University School of Medicine researchers received approximately $5.6 million on June 27 from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine in awards designed to support the creation of new pluripotent human stem cell lines. All four of Stanford's applicants were funded. The researchers received multiyear...
The University of California San Diego, the Scripps Research Institute, the Salk Institute and the Burnham Institute for Medical Research are collaborating to build what is described at the first US stem cell centre in La Jolla, California. The $115m building on Torrey Pines Mesa, is seen as the first...
Three California university projects designed by Zimmer Gunsul Frasca Architects received a large injection of funding last month from the governing board of California's stem cell agency. The ZGF projects are at the University of California, Berkley, University of Southern California and Stanford University. The projects are...
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