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30 Apr 2014

StemBook in conversation with Joanne Kurtzberg about cord blood transplantation, cerebral palsy, and metabolic diseases

Lisa Girard

Joanne Kurtzberg, MD is a Professor of Pediatrics and Professor of Pathology at Duke University Medical School. Additionally, she is the Chief Scientific Officer and Medical Director of the Robertson Clinical and Translational Cell Therapy Program, Director of the Pediatric Blood and Marrow Transplant Program, Co-Director of the Stem Cell Laboratory, as well as Director of the Carolinas Cord Blood Bank. Dr. Kurtzberg’s research and clinical interests include using cord blood transplants for the treatment of metabolic diseases and cerebral palsy. She spoke to StemBook editor, Lisa Girard, recently about progress in these areas.

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10 Mar 2014

Khalid Shah talks with StemBook about stem cell-based therapeutics for brain tumors

Lisa Girard

Khalid Shah heads the Molecular Neurotherapy and Imaging Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital where he is also Director of the Stem Cell Therapeutics and Imaging Program. In addition, he is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and Harvard Stem Cell Institute Principal Faculty member. Khalid’s laboratory focuses on creating stem cell-based therapeutics for primary and metastatic brain tumors. StemBook editor, Lisa Girard, spoke with Khalid recently about recent progress in his lab.

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14 Jan 2014

Doug Melton talks with StemBook about diabetes, stem cells, and making beta cells

Lisa Girard

Doug Melton is the Xander University Professor at Harvard and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute . He is also a co-director of Harvard's Stem Cell Institute and co-chair of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard. His research focused on basic developmental processes using Xenopus laveis until the diagnosis of his infant son with type 1 diabetes about 20 years ago shifted his focus toward understanding and curing the disease. Doug recently spoke with StemBook editor, Lisa Girard. Below is an edited version of that interview.

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15 Oct 2013

Allan Spradling talks with StemBook about polyploidy, evolution, and the state of funding for basic science

Lisa Girard

Allan Spradling is a Staff Member and Director of the Carnegie Institution Department of Embryology and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Additionally, he is an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University. Allan and his laboratory study drosophila oogenesis, and more recently the intestine, in order to explore a range of questions including differentiation, the niche, and aging. Allan recently spoke with StemBook editor, Lisa Girard.

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Journal Stream

This week's Journalstream spans stem cell research advances in the liver and the brain, as well as describes critical insights into stem cell niche formation. In our Editor's Pick this week, Omatsu et al. describe their finding that the transcription factor Foxc1 is critical for HSC niche formation.

Papers of the Week