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March 16, 2011

Center Co-Director Jamie Thomson has racked up yet another prize. Jamie is one of three scientists who have been named the recipients of the 11th annual Albany Medical Center Prize in Medicine and Biomedical Research. The pioneering work of Thomson, Elaine Fuchs and Shinya Yamanaka in isolating human stem cells holds great promise for the future of medicine.

January 18, 2011

Center Co-director Jamie Thomson has been awarded the King Faisal Prize for his notable contributions to the field of regenerative medicine.

December 09, 2010

A team led by Stem Cell Center Professor Ken Kosik has found that pluripotent cells can be defined by their microRNA expression profiles, and differences are related to expression of p53 and p53-controlled genes. Results were published in Cell Stem Cell, with Pierre Neveu and Min Kye as first authors.

November 15, 2010

An international collaboration between UC Santa Barbara, the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC), and several other research institutions, is bringing together leaders in the fields of stem cell biology, basic science, and ophthalmology to develop a treatment for blindness caused by age-related macular degeneration. The California Project to Cure Blindness (CPCB) was formed with a $16 million California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) "disease team" grant awarded in late 2009 to fund development of a stem cell-based treatment for age-related macular degeneration. As part of the CIRM Disease Team partnership program, an additional $4.1 million from Britain's Medical Research Council funds collaborative work at University College of London. - See more at: http://www.news.ucsb.edu/2010/012937/ucsb-part-international-research-collaboration-focusing-age-related-macular-degeneration#sthash.5E6MUdkq.dpuf

August 06, 2010

James D. Cooper, Associate Professor in the Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology Department as well as the Biomolecular Science and Engineering Program at UC Santa Barbara was published in the August issue of Cell Stem Cell for his collaborative work with Aaron M. Newman using an unsupervised clustering algorithm called AutoSOME to study lab specific gene expression signatures in Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells(iPSC) and Human Embryonic Stem Cells(hESC). Reanalysis of microarray gene expression data from seven different laboratories shows strong correlation between gene expression signatures and specific laboratories in both ESC and iPSC lines.

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