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Send to friendIn her lab on the fifth floor of the Life Sciences Institute, Johanna Buchstaller studies tumor tissue slides on a typical day. The postdoctoral research fellow’s mission is to find improved treatments for neurofibromatosis (NF), which in severe cases causes disfigurement that has been compared to Elephant Man’s disease. Pete Dingeman presented U-M with $31,000 to aid research to aid the neurofibromatosis research being conducted by Johanna Buchstaller. Learn more
April 4, 2009 -- LSI faculty member and Director of the U-M Center for Stem Cell Biology, Dr. Sean Morrison, received a $50,000 grant from The Liddy Shriver Sarcoma Initiative to study a specific type of malignant tumor related to the disease Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1). NF1 is a condition, marked most commonly by the formation of benign tumors throughout the peripheral nervous system that affects approximately 1 in every 4,000 people. Learn more
March 9, 2009 - The U-M announced today the formation of a consortium to create new embryonic stem cell lines that will aid the search for disease treatments and cures. The A. Alfred Taubman Medical Research Institute Consortium for Stem Cell Therapies, supported in part by the U-M Center for Stem Cell Biology and the LSI, is the first major embryonic stem cell research program launched in Michigan since the Nov. 4 passage of a state constitutional amendment allowing scientists to create new stem cell lines using surplus embryos from fertility clinics. Learn more
January 22, 2009 - Life Sciences Institute researcher Dr. Ivan Maillard and Dr. Yi Zhang of the U-M Medical School will share a $450,000 Innovation Award from the Damon Runyon Cancer Research Foundation. Maillard and Zhang will look for novel ways to make bone marrow transplants safer and more widely available. Learn more
December 19, 2008 - A new state law goes into effect today that enables U-M stem cell scientists to derive new embryonic stem cell lines, using proceudres already employed in laboratories around the world. U-M scientists are already busy planning projects that could lead to new treatments for inherited diseases. Learn more
November 5, 2008 - Election results show that Michigan voters are in support of expanded stem cell research. Learn more
October 15, 2008 - Sean Morrison and Liz Barry discuss Michigan's restrictive stem cell laws in this week's version of Science Progress. Learn more
June 1, 2008 - Yukiko Yamashita, Life Sciences Institute Reseach Assistant Professor, member of the University of Michigan Center for Stem Cell Biology, and Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology at the University of Michigan Medical School, was named a Searle Scholar. Learn more
February 18, 2008 - The University of Michigan Medical School and the Center for Stem Cell Biology have received a significant gift to fund broader opportunities for stem cell research at U-M. The Robert and Marge Alpern Stem Cell Research Fund is designed to encourage both embryonic and tissue-specific (adult) stem cell research by offering researchers university-wide an additional resource for studies in this fast-growing field.
February 12, 2008 - Michael B. Staebler has written an op-ed piece for the Detroit News regarding Michigan legislative issues that impact stem cell research.
Read the full article at detnews.com
January 17, 2008 - LSI faculty and Center for Stem Cell Biology head Sean Morrison is quoted in a Wired article about state funding for researchers in California.
Sean Morrison, Director of the University of Michigan Center for Stem Cell Biology won the 2008 Harland Winfield Mossman Award in recognition of remarkable discoveries in stem cell biology.
Sean Morrison was interviewed for a segment on stem cell research on the November 5, 2007, edition of Detroit Today on WDET 101.9 FM, Detroit Public Radio. An audio clip is forthcoming.
Listen to the whole radio show (mp3)
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October 17, 2007 - The Center for Stem Cell Biology is featured in a discussion of stem cell legislation in today's Michigan Daily. From the article:
A ballot proposal committee formed at the beginning of October is aiming to overturn the ban on embryonic stem cell research in Michigan. That would be a welcome change for University researchers who say the law hinders on the development of medical cures.
Read the full article on MichiganDaily.com
September 24, 2007 - An article in today's Ann Arbor News features the Center for Stem Cell Biology's research that "has dealt a blow to a long-held hypothesis that sought to explain how adult stem cells protect themselves from mutations that can lead to cancer."
Read the full article on MLive.
July 30, 2007 - With the arrival of researcher Ivan Maillard, the center for stem cell biology at the University of Michigan has four faculty members...
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June 10, 2007 - U-M student Arikia Millikan blogs about stem cells and interviews Sean Morrison for a Michigan Daily blog post.
Read the article on the Michigan Daily website
May 18, 2007 - Liz Barry, LSI's managing director, provided an editorial advocating the use of embryonic stem cells in research in today's Detroit Free Press.
Read the article on the Free Press website
Monday, May 7, 2007
9:00 to 11:00 a.m.
Green Auditorium, Scott Hall of Basic Medical Sciences, 540 E. Canfield Avenue , Detroit , MI 48201
Hosted by the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics (CMMG), in coordination with the Michigan Citizens for Stem Cell Research & Cures (MCSCRC), and featuring LSI faculty member Sean Morrison.
May 2, 2007 - WWJ Newsradio 950 from Detroit interviewed U-M President Mary Sue Coleman and Center for Stem Cell Research head Sean Morrison in a story about life science jobs in Michigan.
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March 07, 2007 - "The stem cell laws that we have in this state are one reason why people in the rest of country look at Michigan as an 'also-ran' when it comes to developing it as a biotechnology (center),'' Sean Morrison, director of the University of Michigan's Center for Stem Cell Biology, recently told The News...
March 04, 2007 - As Pfizer prepares to close its Ann Arbor doors, many in the Michigan biotech industry have begun asking what the state must do to attract more business.
Among the answers are an emerging demand that Michigan must revisit its laws regarding embryonic stem cell research.
Sean Morrison, director of the University of Michigan Center for Stem Cell Biology, said making the laws more permissive in Michigan would help the state's life sciences industry develop. That would allow scientists to go out and find money for the research...
October 23, 2006 - The University of Michigan has raised over a quarter of a million dollars in private funds to support a project on human embryonic stem cell research currently not eligible for federal funding. The project will be part of the U-M Center for Stem Cell Biology, which was launched last year with $12M in start-up funding from U-M and which is based in U-M’s Life Science Institute...
September 19, 2005 - President Mary Sue Coleman today announced a significant expansion of the University of Michigan’s efforts in stem cell science with the creation of a new interdisciplinary center for stem cell research, to be based at the Life Sciences Institute...
