Congratulations to three UCR graduate students who recently learned that they have been awarded prestigious NSF pre-doctoral Fellowships to help them undertake work in stem cell biology. The awards went to Maricela Maldanado, Thanh Nguyen, and Barbara Davis. The Fellowships will provide stipends for each student for three years. Thanh Nguyen works with Assistant Professor...
The Inland Empire Stem Cell Consortium Symposium will be hosted this year at Loma Linda University from 10 AM to 3:30 PM on April 17th. Dr. Philip Schwartz from Children's Hospital Orange Country will be the Keynote speaker. There will also be presentations given by Consortium members, a poster session, a vendor show and a...
Benjamin Guan, a PhD candidate in the School of Engineering, received the award for the best platform presentation at the IEEE HISB annual meetings in San Diego this year. Ben has been working on developing software tools to classify different types of stem cells in video data. Ben works with Dr. Bir Bhanu, the Director...
On April 25th, the Inland Empire Stem Cell Consortium had its first event, a poster session and lunch at the UCR campus. Consortium members include Loma Linda University, California State University at San Bernardino and the University of California at Riverside. Approximately 24 laboratories engaged in stem cell research belong to the Consortium, which was...
Vasu Bahl, a second year PhD student in the Environmental Toxicology Graduate Program at UCR, won a prize for her poster presentation entitled "Smoke and Chemicals from Cigarettes Impair Stem Cell Growth". This poster was presented at the Southern California Society of Toxicology Regional Chapter meeting held this year at Allergan in Irvine. Vasu used...
This winter quarter, UCR labs will be presenting their work in our weekly joint lab meetings. These are held on Wednesdays from noon until 1PM in the Genomics Auditorium. A pizza lunch is served in the lobby at 11:30AM. Come and learn about what UCR researchers are doing in stem cell biology. Click here for...
Dr. Ameae Walker, a Professor in the Division of Biomedical Sciences, has received a new grant from the California Breast Cancer Research Program that deals with breast cancer stem cells. One aspect of this grant is to determine if Dr. Walker's proposed new drug therapy reduces breast cancer stem cells. The project, which is entitled...
Examples of Recent Stem Cell Publications by UCR Stem Cell Center Faculty (Click links to see the articles in PubMed) Long-term magnetic resonance imaging of stem cells in neonatal ischemic injury. Obenaus A, Dilmac N, Tone B, Tian HR, Hartman R, Digicaylioglu M, Snyder EY, Ashwal S. Ann Neurol. 2011 Feb;69(2):282-91. doi: 10.1002/ana.22168. Epub 2010...
Jo-Hao (Nikki) Weng was selected as a NSF IGERT Fellow in Video Bioinformatics. She will join a new cohort of IGERT Fellows this fall quarter. Nikki is a PhD student in the Cell, Molecular, and Developmental Biology Graduate Program. Her research deals with the mechanism that regulates dynamic blebbing in human embryonic stem cells. Much...
The UCR Stem Cell Core recently acquired new space nearby the existing Core. The new space, which almost doubles Core floor space, will enable addition of new pieces of equipment in the future and the addition of one new cell culture room which will be set up this coming year. Also existing equipment will now...
The UCR Stem Cell Core has received three additional years of funding from the California institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). This funding helps to support the Core staff and cover the operating expenses of the Core. The Core is open from 8AM to 5PM Monday through Friday, and it available for use with stem cell...
The Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program of California (TRDRP) awarded five new research grants to UCR students and faculty working with stem cells. Four of the awards began August 1 of this year and one will begin August 1 of 2012. Ivann Martinez, a PhD student with Dr. Nicole zur Nieden and a member of the...
Dr. Andy Obenaus and Dr. Steve Ashwal, both members of the UCR Stem Cell Center, have learned that their recent article dealing with imaging of stem cells in neonatal ischemic injury has been evaluated and reviewed by the Faculty of 1000 (F1000), placing this article in the top 2% of published articles in biology and...
On March 18th, the UCR Medical School opened its first building. This is an historic event in the establishment of the UCR Medical School, which will be the first new Medical School in California in over 40 years. The event was attended by over 200 people including dignitaries from the U.S Department of Health and...