Congratulations to Dr. Huinan Liu who is the PI on this undergraduate level CIRM Training Grant! Please click link for more information: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2023/04/03/inland-empire-stem-cell-therapy-gets-29-million-booster
Congratulations to Dr. Huinan Liu who is the PI on this wonderful CIRM training grant at the undergraduate level! Please click link below to access news article: https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2022/03/22/uc-riverside-program-high-school-students-aims-diversify-stem-workforce
The University of California, Riverside, has received a grant of $5 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state’s stem cell agency, to train young scientists and physicians in stem cell research. “We would like to increase the number and diversity of highly qualified doctoral students and postdoctoral level scientists trained in stem...
"A team led by a biomedical scientist at the University of California, Riverside, has developed a new RNA-sequencing method— “Panoramic RNA Display by Overcoming RNA Modification Aborted Sequencing,” or PANDORA-seq — that can help discover numerous modified small RNAs that were previously undetectable." This study utilized somatic and pluripotent stem cells and features collaborative work...
The Passage of Proposition 14 Underscores Californians’ Commitment to Continue Investments in the Discovery of Groundbreaking Treatments and Cures for Chronic Diseases and Conditions
Congratulations to postdoc, Maneeshi Prasad, PhD, for receiving a SOM Deans Research Fellowship! Dr. Maneeshi Prasad, an Assistant Project Scientist in the Division of Biomedical Sciences in the lab of Dr. Martin Garcia-Castro, has received a School of Medicine Dean’s Postdoc to Faculty fellowship. Dr. Prasad’s research focuses on studying the development of the neural...
Dr. Rebekah Charney (imaged below), a postdoc in the Division of Biomedical Sciences, has been awarded a Pathway to Independence grant from NIH's National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research. This award will support Dr. Charney for a two-year mentored postdoc in the lab of Dr. Martin Garcia-Castro, followed by three years of support for...
A research team at the University of California, Riverside, has found that electronic cigarettes, often targeted to youth and pregnant women, produce a stress response in neural stem cells, which are critical cells in the brain. Present throughout life, stem cells become specialized cells with more specific functions, such as brain cells, blood cells, or...
April 16, 2018 was a day filled with informative CIRM presentations, patient advocacy, interactive discussions, poster sessions and platform talks on current stem cell research at UCR. An account of the day's events can be read in "A road trip to the Inland Empire highlights a hot bed of stem cell research" by Kevin McCormack...
We are glad to announce that the Nikon Eclipse Ti has been upgraded to a solid-state white light excitation subsystem. If you are interested in being trained on the Eclipse, please contact me to set up a checkout time. Additionally, all users who are currently checked out on the Eclipse and would like to use...
