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Pete Coffey Collects Royal Award

March 05, 2012

Pete Coffey traveled to Buckingham Palace on February 19 to collect the the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, which was awarded to the University College Institute of Ophthalmology. The Institute was recognized as “one of the foremost and most influential eye and vision research institutes in the world, enjoying an outstanding reputation for excellence in furthering understanding of the eye and visual system and its related disorders and diseases.” The Award was presented by Her Majesty The Queen, with His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh.The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes are the UK’s highest form of national recognition open to UK academic or vocational institutions.

The Royal Anniversary Trust

Gene Expression Networks Underlying Age-Related Macular Degeneration

February 24, 2012

Stem Cell Center researchers Monte Radeke, Linc Johnson and co-workers identified genes whose expression levels can identify people with AMD, as well as genes that distinguish clinical AMD subtypes. The findings, which appear in BioMed Central’s journal Genome Medicine, could offer new candidate targets for the development of AMD diagnostics and therapies.

UCSB Press Release

Croze earns top poster award at Beckman Macular Degeneration Meeting

January 30, 2012

Stem Cell Center researcher and MCDB graduate student Roxanne Croze earned the top poster award at a meeting of the Beckman Initiative for Macular Research at UC Irvine. Roxanne’s poster, entitled “Monitoring stem cell transplants in ocular disease: The RPE Christmas tree”, reported her recent work in Dennis Clegg’s lab. Lyndsay Leach and Monte Radeke were also authors on the poster. Through a generous grant from the Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, the Beckman Initiative for Macular Research (BIMR) brings together outstanding scientists, engineers, medical researchers, and clinicians — all focused on a common goal: developing a better understanding of atrophic macular degeneration.

Arnold and Mabel Beckman Initiative for Macular ResearchArnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation

Douglas Foundation Sponsors UCSB Researchers at World Stem Cell Summit

December 15, 2011

The Douglas Foundation

UCSB Researchers Awarded on Stem Cell Awareness Day

October 05, 2011

October 5, 2011 was celebrated throughout the world as Stem Cell Awareness Day, with the goal of educating patients, students and researchers about stem cell research. UCSB sponsored a microscopy contest among local researchers to reward the most creative and innovative depiction of stem cell research. Congratulations to Dr. David Buchholz, whose images of neural “rosettes” derived from human embryonic stem cells won first place.

World Stem Cell Summit

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