departmentDepartment of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
The Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology (SCRB) was established in April 2007 as the first cross-school department located in both the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). At present, the founding faculty consists of 15 faculty members from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and the Joslin Diabetes Center.
The department's subject area is the study of the development, maintenance and repair of vertebrate tissues. How organisms, including humans, develop from a fertilized egg, maintain tissues in the adult body and repair dysfunctional or damaged tissue is a broad subject to be addressed using the approaches of developmental biology, regenerative medicine and aspects of tissue engineering. Emphasis will be placed on using these aspects of biology to inform the understanding of human diseases.
Affiliation: Harvard Medical School and Faculty of Arts and SciencesWeb site: Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
Recent articles about Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology
A young scientist at the forefront of cell reprogramming (Science Careers, December 19, 2008)Top 10 medical breakthroughs - 1. First Neurons Created from ALS Patients (Time Magazine, December 19, 2008)
Stem cell researcher honored by President George W. Bush (December 19, 2008)
Some blood-system stem cells reproduce more slowly than expected (December 5, 2008)
Another step forward in ALS and stem cell research (December 5, 2008)
Important new step toward producing stem cells for human treatment (September 25, 2008)
Stem Cell Summit hails bench progress, looks to bedside future (September 23, 2008)
Efficiency of producing iPS cells markedly improved (September 10, 2008)
Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers turn one form of adult mouse cell directly into another (August 27, 2008)
Driven: (August 27, 2008)
Daley and colleagues create 20 disease-specific stem cell lines (August 7, 2008)
Neurons created from skin cells of elderly patients with ALS (July 31, 2008)
GlaxoSmithKline and Harvard Stem Cell Institute announce major collaboration agreement (July 24, 2008)
Stem cells used to treat muscular dystrophy in mice (July 11, 2008)
Amy Wagers - focusing on stem cell biology (July 11, 2008)
Scientists use genomic tools to create maps of DNA methylation (July 10, 2008)
Genomic analysis gives new insights into cellular reprogramming (May 28, 2008)
Experiment advances understanding of cell reprogramming (May 22, 2008)
