We have seven specific milestones with the goal of making bone morphogenetic protein and fibronectin (used to promote bone repair) that…
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Timothy O'Brien, DVM, PhD
We have developed a technically simple, scalable, cGMP‐compatible method to generate hyaline cartilage from human induced pluripotent stem cells.…
2020-2021
Amir Naqwi, PhD
We are proposing the development of an airway cell sprayer that would be included in the instrument channel of a bronchoscope for depositing viable…
2020-2021
Maria Athanasiou, PhD
Building on successful primate model studies, MarPam Pharma is developing a one‐time treatment for durable remission of HIV in the absence of…
2020-2021
Zeeshan Syedain, PhD
The goal of this translational research project is to generate preclinical data and demonstrate regenerative engineered tissue as a superior tissue…
2020-2022
Steven Moran, MD
The main goal of the project is to develop a therapeutic strategy for the regeneration of muscle volume and recovery of function after traumatic…
2020-2022
Brian Fife, PhD
Autoimmune or Type 1 diabetes (T1D) results from the immune‐mediated destruction of insulin producing beta cells in the pancreas islets. In this…
2020-2022
Terry Burns, MD, PhD
Brain irradiation is the standard of treatment for most brain tumors. Irradiating the brain prolongs patient survival, but often results in long…
2020-2022
Rory Smoot, MD
The goal of this proposal is to speed up liver regeneration by activation a regeneration pathway with a drug treatment. This will be tested in…
2020-2022
Ilana Chefetz Menaker, PhD
Young women who undergo chemotherapy for cancer may face infertility. Our experiments are designed to learn how chemotherapy affects the ovaries.…
2020-2022
Martin Rodriguez‐Porcel, MD
Stem cells have the potential to rebuild damaged tissues. Since most tissues are three dimensional, a molecular "scaffold" is often used to place…
2020-2022
Dan Dragomir-Daescu, PhD
The goal of the proposed study is to use a pig model of hemorrhage to investigate the ability of our novel technologies (magnetic intravascular…
2020-2022