Center for Regenerative Medicine to Create First Open Access Lung Stem Cell Repository » Boston University Medical Campus | Blog Archive | Boston University

abernard102@gmail.com 2014-11-15

Summary:

"The BU/BMC Center for Regenerative Medicine (CReM) has been awarded a grant to establish the first-of-its-kind stem cell repository that researchers across the country can access for free. The five-year $2.7 million federal grant from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) will help expand and grow stem cell research aimed at developing treatment for diseases affecting the lungs. CReM’s pioneering research using Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs), which self-renew indefinitely as undifferentiated cells that become specific adult cell types, has helped create an inexhaustible source of disease or patient-specific stem cells. Researchers use these cells to construct disease models in a lab and test potential treatments for a variety of diseases – all without limits that are currently in place for embryonic stem cell research. The Repository, to be housed at CReM’s laboratory on the Medical Campus, will provide access to iPSCs from patients with both normal and diseased lungs. The cells will be expanded, frozen and shipped to investigators who request them to use in their own laboratories ..."

Link:

http://www.bumc.bu.edu/2014/11/13/center-for-regenerative-medicine-to-create-first-open-access-lung-stem-cell-repository/

From feeds:

Open Access Tracking Project (OATP) » abernard102@gmail.com

Tags:

oa.new oa.boston.u oa.funders oa.nhlbi oa.usa oa.medicine oa.biomedicine oa.data oa.green oa.repositories oa.announcements

Date tagged:

11/15/2014, 17:35

Date published:

11/15/2014, 12:35