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Ralph Brinster Honored with Two-Day Symposium at Penn
2012-02-01 - In October 2011, Ralph Brinster VMD, PhD and IRM Co-Founder was presented the National Medical of Science by President Barack Obama.  To honor Dr. Brinster for his achievements in research, the Penn Vet School will hold a two-day symposium in his honor.  The event is planned for August 24-25, 2012. 
IRM Members Receive $2.5 Million to Study Lung Repair and Regeneration
2012-01-19 - The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is one of six institutions to be named part of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute’s Lung Repair and Regeneration Consortium (LRRC).  Edward Morrisey, PhD, IRM Scientific Director, will lead the Penn consortium.  Co-investigators at Penn, including Jonathan Epstein, MD, Chair, Department of Cell and Developmental Biology (and co-founder of the IRM); Rey A. Panettieri, Jr., MD, professor of Medicine; and Paul Gadue, PhD, assistant professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, will work also with Dr. Morrisey.
Reprogramming of brain cells important first step for new Parkinson's Therapy
2011-12-12 - In efforts to find new treatments for Parkinson’s Disease (PD), IRM members have directly reprogrammed astrocytes, the most plentiful cell type in the central nervous system, into dopamine-producing neurons. PD is marked by the degeneration of dopaminergic neurons in the midbrain. Dopamine is a brain chemical important in behavior and cognition, voluntary movement, sleep, mood, attention, and memory and learning.
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