Sonja Schrepfer Receives CIRM Grant to Develop Hypo-Immunogenic Cardiac Patches for Myocardial Regeneration
UCSF Adult CT, Transplant and Stem Cell Biology (TSI) Lab - - June 16, 2017
Sonja Schrepfer, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Professor and Director of the UCSF Transplant and Stem Cell Immunobiology (TSI) Lab, was recently awarded a grant by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to engineer a "Hypo-Immunogenic Cardiac Patches for Myocardial Regeneration".
The funding is part of CIRM's Discovery: Inception program is for seed funding for great ideas that have the potential to impact human stem cell research, funding that will enable the researchers to test their ideas, and generate preliminary data to support for greater funding.
Dr. Schrepfer proposed [...]