RMM Grants Awarded

See where grants have been awarded across Minnesota.
Jilian L. Foxen
Advancing Regenerative Medicine Through Educating Minnesota K-8 Educators
Our goal is to educate Minnesota youth about the elementary building blocks of regenerative sciences. To achieve this goal, we expanded the 2016…
2017-2018
James Thompson, PhD
Molecular farming to reduce cost of recombinant proteins important to regenerative medicine
After completing "proof of concept" experiments that produced human proteins in tobacco plants and acquiring a new lab facility, we seek to upscale…
2017-2018
John Schorgl, BA
AmnioStent - Combining nitinol scaffold with amnion tissue to create a novel airway stent technology for tracheobronchial applications
Peytant Solutions is developing a human amnion tissue cover scaffold, called the AmnioStent™, for the treatment of malignant airway strictures. …
2017-2018
Walter C. Low, PhD
Production of dopamine neurons - a cellular product for treating Parkinson’s
The goal of this project is to produce authentic human dopamine neurons that can be used for cell transplantation therapy for patients with…
2017-2018
Saad Kenderian, MD
Development of a chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy platform at the Mayo Clinic
The goal of this project is to establish the infrastructure for the development of chimeric antigen receptor T (CART) cell therapy at the Mayo…
2017-2018
Yasuhiro Ikeda, DVM, PhD
Mayo CRM-original iPSC-derived islet product in a retrievable, encapsulation device
Our product is MC-iLETS01, Mayo Center for Regenerative Medicine-original iPSC-derived islet cell product in a retrievable encapsulation device,…
2017-2018
Leah Hogdal, PhD
Mitochondrial base editing for nerve regeneration
We intend to use a new form of genetic correction we’ve developed to correct mitochondrial gene mutations that cause a progressive form of…
2017-2018
James Dutton, PhD
Critical infrastructure to support new stem cell-derived treatments for patients with age-related macular degeneration in Minnesota
  Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a devastating disease of aging and the leading cause of blindness in people aged 50 and older in…
2017-2018
Dan Dragomir-Daescu, PhD
Controllable and automated system for synthesizing GMP magnetic nanoparticles for regenerative medicine applications
The goal of this project is to implement non-expendable research laboratory equipment in the Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine, which…
2017-2018
Daniel Carlson, PhD
Development of inducible immunodeficient swine
Immunodeficient swine have tremendous potential in basic and pre-clinical research; however, difficulties in propagation have impeded commercial…
2017-2018
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Satsuki Yamada, MD, PhD
Regenerative cardiac synchronization: a translational study
Heart attacks damage heart walls, compromising the pumping function of the heart. Dr. Yamada is investigating the use of patient’s own stem cells…
2017-2019
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Mark J. Osborn, PhD
Natural killer cell chimeric antigen receptor therapy
Using the body’s own immune system to combat cancer is a highly promising field, but there have been some serious side effects reported with early…
2017-2019