Our Research In Progress series continued this week with two more CIRM scholars: @sarah_mccglia (@JoshuaBurda) described astrocyte-microglial communication after spinal cord injury and Arati Naveen (@JefferiesLab) demonstrated how type I IFN alters cardiomyocyte metabolism.

Sunshine and stem cells in Lake Arrowhead this week! Thank you UCLA Broad Stem Cell for organizing this year's summit and CIRM for continuing to support our research and collaboration.

Where Are They Now? CIRM SPARK (high school) alumnus Amanda Wu graduated from UCLA in 2021 and is now an MD/PhD student in the @KPMed program with Caltech!

The Regenerative Medicine Institute (RMI) at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center collaborates with CIRM to promote opportunities for a diverse and skilled workforce in CA. For more information on our programs, please visit cedars-sinai.edu/research/depar…

Where Are They Now? CIRM SPARK (high school) alumnus Andrew Sungmin Choi graduated from Claremont McKenna College, is now working at UCSF Health, and is heading to med school David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA this fall!

RMI On The Road: Umer Farooqi from the Pierson Lab presented his work using forebrain organoids to study Helping Hands 4 GAND-associated neurodevelopmental disorder (GAND) at the ISSCR and Center for Stem Cell & Organoid Medicine symposium on Stem Cells in Human Development and Disease in Cincinnati last week.

🎉 Join us in extending a warm welcome to our newest Research Associate, Joshua Gamez, in Mehrnoosh Ghiam’s Lab! 👋 #NewHire #WelcomeAboard

Wondering why we’ve been sending stem cells into space? In this review, Arun Sharma & colleagues explain how magnetic fields, shear stress & gravity impact stem cells, and why low earth orbit provides interesting opportunities for regenerative medicine: liebertpub.com/doi/abs/10.108…

Check out this upcoming webinar featuring Mehrnoosh Ghiam and Alex Ljubimov from the RMI Eye Program!

This week’s research-in-progress meeting featured Rodrigo Miguel Dos Santos (Eugenio Cingolani, MD Lab) who is reprogramming cardiomyocytes to generate a biological pacemaker, and Lizhuo Ai (@1jvaneyk Lab) who presented single cell proteomic analysis of iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes.

Great article about last week’s Research Day – congrats to Amelia Andrews from the Goodridge Lab on her poster award and a nice shout-out to Madelyn Arzt in the Arun Sharma lab too! Cedars-Sinai Academic Medicine
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Welcome to our newest Intern Anoushka Prasad in the Sheyn Lab!
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Thank you to City of Hope for hosting and CIRM for sponsoring a very interesting Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine Symposium last week! RMI’s John Chute was among the faculty speakers and it was great to hear from some of the CIRM scholars too.
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Great presentation on diabetic corneal epithelial disease in the Biomedical Sciences seminar series today! Ruchi from the Ljubimov Lab discussed her work revealing epigenetic changes in the diabetic cornea and discussed prospects for development of an epigenetic therapy.

The Josh Burda lab is hiring postdocs! Join our NIH-funded team to explore the functions of astrocytes in neural tissue remodeling, inflammation and repair in CNS damage and disease. careers.cshs.org/job/beverly-hi…

Abstracts Due Tomorrow! Submit your Late-Breaking Abstract by 11:59 p.m. EDT (USA) tomorrow, 3 April, for the opportunity to present your research to the global stem cell community at ISSCR 2024.

Submit now 👉 ow.ly/n4oY50R6Gur