New Stem Cell Institute Already Attracting Top Scientists to Bay Area
Related News: Stem Cell NewsTwo of the nation's best know and top stem cell researchers are headed to Stanford University this fall. What brought them from their relatively safe positions elsewhere? Part of what attracted them in part is the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
Stanford University will add to their list of biotech researchers Stefan Heller, a Ph.D. currently involed with the Stem Cell Institute at Harvard. Furthermore, Dr. Michael Clarke, who is currently a professor of internal medicine at the University of Michigan.
The Dean of Stanford's School of Medicine Dr. Philip Pizzo stated that Heller and Clarke "are going to be very helpful to us as we move forward in initiating some of our important work in stem cell research and cancer biology."
Heller's work so far as focused on using stem cell therapies to treat deafness and restoring hearing.
"He's working on some specific cells that if damaged, could lead to deafness," Pizzo said, "and if restored through stem cell biology could lead to recovery."
Clarke has been focusing his research on treating breast cancer, and Pizzo said that he hopes to apply his findings to treating other types of cancer.
Posted on May 30, 2005 03:45 PM