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
- October 2009 - Ed Morrisey, PhD, IRM Scientific Director, one of 18 teams awarded NHLBI funds to develop the high-potential field of stem and progenitor cell tools and therapies. The Morrisey team will endeavor to determine how certain signaling pathways -- ordered sequences of biochemical reactions inside cells -- affect cardiac and blood-forming cell development and cardiac regeneration and repair. The team will also study whether these pathways may be harnessed for therapeutic applications. Read more...
- October 2009 - New Research Morphs Skin Cells into Liver Cells. Kenneth Zaret, PhD, IRM Associate Director, is quoted in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel commenting on new research from the Medical College of Wisconsin which has turned human skin cells into liver cells, opening new avenues for treating liver diseases without relying on organ transplants. The research was reported this week in the journal Hepatology. Read more...
- September 2009 - The Penn Genome Frontiers Institute (PGFI) and the Institute for Regenerative Medicine (IRM) are holding a public symposium "Instructing Our Own Cells: Repairing Bodies & Restoring Health" at The Franklin Institute on Wednesday, September 30. Read more...
- September 2009 - IRM Associate Director, Ken Zaret, to provide Keynote Address at "A Retreat on Translating Islet Biology into Clinical Therapy". This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Regenerative Medicine and the Institute for Diabetes, Obesity & Metabolism. To learn more...
[news archive]
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).
[publications archive]