List of some of the stem cell projects in Boston with NIH funding:
Coming up in October at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole
The Stem Cells and Regeneration Course (formerly known as FrHESC) is a dynamic, evolving laboratory and lecture course that includes the complete array of biological and medical perspectives from fundamental basic biology of “stemness” and mechanisms of regeneration through evaluation of pluripotent stem cells for therapeutic benefit
A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and collaborators at Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has taken a giant step toward the possibility of using human stem cells to repair damaged hearts.
The researchers, led by HSCI principal faculty member Kenneth Chien, report using a mouse version of a human cardiac master stem cell to create a functioning strip of mouse heart muscle with technology developed by Kevin Kit Parker, the Thomas Dudley Cabot Associate Professor of Applied Science in Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and a faculty member at the University’s Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering.
Mass General Hospita/Broad Institute
The Reference Epigenome Mapping Centers (REMC) will aim to transform our understanding of human epigenetics through production and integrative analysis of comprehensive reference epigenomes for ES cells, differentiated cells and tissues. In pursuit of this goal, we have assembled a unique scientific team and infrastructure with broad expertise and capabilities in stem cell biology, epigenomics, technology, production research and computation…
The proposed mapping studies will provide unprecedented views of the human epigenetic landscape and its variation across cell states, offer fundamental insight into the functions and interrelationships of epigenetic marks, and provide a framework for future studies of normal and diseased epigenomes.