Welcome
to the Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IRM)
The Penn Institute for Regenerative Medicine was established in 2007 by President Amy Gutmann and Provost Ronald Daniels to promote discoveries in stem cell biology and regeneration and to translate these discoveries into new therapies to alleviate suffering and disease, and to encourage and advance education, public discourse and debate as it relates to stem cell and regeneration biology.
In the News
- June 2009 - IRM announces call for pilot project proposals. Applications due by
September 14, 2009 To learn more... - June 2009 - Ken Zaret, PhD joins the IRM as Associate Director. Ken comes to Penn from Fox Chase Cancer Center where he was the WW Smith Chair in Cancer Biology and led the Cell and Developmental Biology Program. Ken is an internationally known developmental biologist who has focused on liver and pancreas related research, and the regulation of gene expression.
- June 2009 - IRM awards fifteen high school and undergraduates an IRM Summer Internship. Additionally six undergraduates were awarded the Center of Excellence Research Internship.
- June 2009 - Regenerative Medicine: Ready to Take the Lead Penn Medicine Magazine's Spring 2009 issue spotlights the Institute for Regenerative Medicine; see pages 16-21. Download PDF »
- May 2009 - John D. Gearhart, PhD, IRM Director, is named as a Penn State 2009 Alumni Fellow in recognition of his outstanding professional accomplishments.
- April 2009 - IRM Scientists Awarded $2 Million to Create Cardiac Myogenesis Research Center. Penn is one of three medical centers awarded funds by the American Heart Association to study generation of cardiac muscle cells. Learn more...
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Recent Publications
- In Press - Female mice delay reproductive aging in males (PDF 3.2mb)
- July 2008 - Lnk controls mouse hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal and quiescence thought director interactions with JAK2 (PDF, 1.5mb)
- June 2008 - A Gata6-Wnt pathway required for epithelial stem cell development and airway regeneration (PDF, 903kb).
- May 2008 - Tensile properties of engineered cartilage formed from chondrocyte- and MSC-laden hydrogels (PDF, 1.0mb).
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