UW-Madison Plans Stem Cell Center; Aim is Support to Research Community
By KATHLEEN GALLAGHER
The University of Wisconsin-Madison will establish a new center to support a campus-wide stem cell research community and nurture the school’s leadership in this area.
The Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center will be co- directed by two high-profile UW stem cell researchers: Timothy Kamp and Clive Svendsen.
Plans for the new center were announced Thursday night during a lecture on campus by Ian Wilmut, the creator of the cloned sheep named Dolly.
The new center won’t have a building and will be operated under the UW Graduate School and the UW School of Medicine and Public Health.
As many as 50 UW faculty members already are doing research with stem cells or regenerative medicine, Kamp and Svendsen estimate.
Regenerative medicine is an emerging field that seeks to develop technologies to repair or replace diseased or defective tissues or organs.
The center will help to develop core facilities, a seed grant program, funding for postdoctoral fellows and educational, outreach and fund-raising programs.
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