RMI On The Road! Jovita Dimas-Harms and Erikha Valenzuela from the Clive Svendsen lab presented their work exploring the therapeutic potential of iPSC-derived mononuclear phagocytes at the 2024 Southern California Alzheimer’s Disease Centers Research Symposium in Irvine, CA.

Congrats to the Sheyn Lab on their new NIH grant! They are using nociception tissue chips to discover mechanisms of lower back pain in degenerated intervertebral discs and identify novel therapeutic targets. reporter.nih.gov/search/dLHZS0V…

RMI On The Road ✈️: RMI investigators enjoyed the science, sights and schnitzel ISSCR 2024 in Hamburg, Germany!

RMI welcomes interns Tiffany Lee from WashU to the Sheyn Lab and Zohar Goldman from Columbia University to the Clive Svendsen Lab!

Save the date for the #ISSCR2025 Annual Meeting in Hong Kong! Explore the program, meet the speakers, and sign up for email updates 👉 isscr2025.org The University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK HKUST

Congrats to the Chute lab on their paper showing that EGF treatment promotes the DNA repair and self-renewal of aged hematopoietic stem cells! cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Congratulations🎉@sarah_mccglia from the Josh Burda Lab! Sarah has received an NIH K99 pathway to independence award to study astrocyte-intrinsic mechanisms underlying neuroinflammation and neurodegeneration in aging.

Congrats Arun! 🎉

The Cedars-Sinai Biomanufacturing Center recently certified their first cohort of cell and gene therapy trainees – congrats to all! Connect with the CBC on LinkedIn and learn more about their work here: csbiomfg.com

Congrats to Monica Wagner in the Barrett lab who won a Choose-Your-Own-Experience gift box for Cedars-Sinai #HealthcareHeroesWeek! Monica Silveira Wagner

This month’s RMI Research-In-Progress series Colin Koziol (BarryStrippLab) described how epithelial defects affect lung remodeling in COPA Syndrome and Alba Sansa (Clive Svendsen Lab) discussed how ALS patient C9orf72 repeat expansions impact iPSC-derived motor neuron transcriptomes.

Another batch of cells arrived safely at the International Space Station!🚀On this mission, astronauts are using methods developed by the Svendsen, Sareen and Sharma labs to reprogram adult cells to iPSCs. cedars-sinai.org/newsroom/a-fir…

Congratulations🎉 to Josh Breunig Josh Breunig on his appointment as the Ben Winters Chair in Regenerative Medicine!

This month our Regenerative Medicine Seminar Series featured Joseph C Wu, MD, PhD from Stanford CVI who presented his lab’s studies of cardiovascular disease mechanisms and “clinical trials in a dish”.

Nice article sharing perspectives of junior PIs at #ISSCR2024 including RMI’s @ArumSharmaPhD! nature.com/articles/s4159…

The 2024 CIRM SPARK Conference was hosted by UCR Stem Cell Center & Core at the Riverside Convention Center. 120 students from across the state presented their internship research and shared their experiences – congrats to them all! California Institute for Regenerative Medicine

Congrats to California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Scholar Lizhuo Ai from the jennifer van eyk lab who successfully defended her PhD thesis! Dr. Ai used tissue and single cell proteomics to study cardiac damage after myocardial infarction. linkedin.com/posts/lizhuo-a…

Congratulations to our CIRM SPARK Students from the Celine Riera Lab and the Ljubimov Lab who were 2 out of 3 Poster Award Winners at the CIRM SPARK Conference! We are so proud of you!

Join us in giving a warm welcome to our new RA's Michelle and Angel in the Clive Svendsen Lab! #welcome

RMI welcomes Sara Versales, new RA in the Josh Breunig ! 🎉🌟 #Welcome