We are very pleased to announce that Dr. Noboru Sato joined the UCR campus this September. Dr. Sato has an MD from Oita Medical University and a PhD degree from Juntendo University School of Medicine. He has worked with human and mouse embryonic stem cells for 10 years at Cornell University, Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and...
Dr. Prue Talbot, a member of the Department of Cell Biology and Neuroscience, has been appointed the Director of the Stem Cell Center at UCR. Dr. Talbot’s lab is working on several projects involving embryonic stem cells. Her group, which is specifically developing new methods to improve culture of stem cells, has identified several chemicals...
This winter the Stem Cell Center initiated a new seminar series featuring stem cell researchers from other campuses. There are seven outside speakers visiting UCR this winter. The speaker for our inaugural seminar was Dr. Leslie Weiner from USC who presented his work on “Stem Cells and Multiple Sclerosis”. There will be a total of...