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Meet the Team

By Courtney Strasenburgh on January 23, 2024
As part of our Meet the Team series, we introduce you to one of our UCSF Broad Stem Cell community members. Meet Arantxa Cebrian Silla, PhD, a postdoctoral fellow working with Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, PhD to study the mechanisms of adult neurogenesis and neuronal replacement. Arantxa’s project...

UCSF Scientist Sarah Knox Receives $2 Million Grant from CIRM Translational Program for Innovative Research on Salivary Gland Regeneration

By Courtney Strasenburgh on November 03, 2023
In a significant stride towards addressing radiation-induced xerostomia, UCSF Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research Scientist and Professor in the Department of Cell and Tissue Biology, School of Dentistry, Dr. Sarah Knox has been awarded a $2 million grant as...

Meet the Team

By Courtney Strasenburgh on June 26, 2023
As part of our Meet the Team series, we introduce you to one of our fantastic community members. Meet Ernesto Rojas, an MD-PhD student working with Diana Laird, PhD, and Tippi MacKenzie, MD, to study the origins of sacrococcygeal teratomas (SCTs)...

UCSF scientists receive $8 million in CIRM grants toward stem cell and gene therapies

By Courtney Strasenburgh on April 06, 2023
Researchers at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF have received more than $8 million in grants from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state’s stem cell agency, to fill in critical knowledge gaps in the biology of stem...

Meet the Team

By Courtney Strasenburgh on March 24, 2023
As part of our Meet the Team series, we introduce you to one of our fantastic community members. Meet Simone Kurial, a PhD candidate in the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program, working with Holger Willenbring, MD, PhD to better understand and translate mechanisms of hepatocyte transdifferentiation...

Can a Leading Laboratory Unlock the Cause of Gastrointestinal Disease?

By Alisha Green on February 08, 2023
This story is one in a series marking International Women and Girls in Science Day. Join us as we celebrate some laboratory leaders taking research to new heights.

Why Stem Cell Therapy Might Not Work for Older Patients

By Sarah C.P. Williams on February 08, 2023
This story is one in a series marking International Women and Girls in Science Day. Join us as we celebrate some laboratory leaders taking research to new heights.

Can Lab-Grown Beta Cells Revolutionize Diabetes Care?

By Sarah C. P. Williams on February 08, 2023
This story is one in a series marking International Women and Girls in Science Day. Join us as we celebrate some laboratory leaders taking research to new heights.

How Much Can We Control Our Own Fertility?

By Christina Hernandez Sherwood on February 01, 2023
Nearly one in five American women experience infertility, meaning they’re unable to become pregnant after at least a year of trying to conceive, or six months if they’re age 35 or older. Should they cut the caffeine? Or take up yoga to de-stress? An infertility diagnosis can lead some hopeful...

Researchers Receive High Honors for Outstanding Science Contributions

By Laura Kurtzman on January 31, 2023
Three UC San Francisco researchers have been named 2022 fellows by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), which is the world’s largest general scientific society and publishes the influential Science family of journals. Election to AAAS is one of the highest honors in...

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