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Upcoming Events
2013
- November 10-13:2013 TERMIS-Americas, Atlanta, GA, Website
- October 23-26:2013 TERMIS-AP, Shanghai, P.R. China, Website
- September 11-12:REGMEDCON2013, San Francisco, Website
- June 17-20:2013 TERMIS-EU, Istanbul, Turkey, Website
- June 12-15:ISSCR 2013 Annual Meeting, Boston, MA, Website
- May 21:ASTM Tissue Engineering Scaffolds Workshop, Indianapolis, IN, Website
- May 10:Developing Microphysiological Systems for use as Regulatory Tools--Challenges and Opportunities Workshop, FDA, White Oak Campus, MD, Website
- March 14-15:Third AIMBE/NIH Workshop on Validation and Qualification of New In Vitro Tools and Models for The Pre-clinical Drug Discovery Process, NIH, Bethesda, MD, Website
- Feb 28:The 16th US-Japan Cellular and Gene Therapy Conference Agenda, Natcher Conference Center, Bethesda, MD Website
- Jan 31-Feb 1:STEM 2013, 9th Annual Conference Society for Regenerative Medicine and Tissue Engineering (SRMTE), Bangalore, India, Website
2012
- December 3-5: 8th World Stem Cell Summit , West Palm Beach, FL, Website
- September 18-20: Stem Cells USA & Regenerative Medicine Congress , Boston, MA, Website
- September 5-8: Third TERMIS World Congress, Vienna, Austria
- July 14-18: Controlled Release Society Thirty-Ninth Annual Meeting & Exposition, Quebec City, Canada [a website for this event is not yet available]
- July 10-11: Pluripotent Stem Cells in Translation: Preclinical Considerations, Natcher Converenc Center, Bethesda, MD,Website
- June 5-8: 18th Annual International Society for Cellular Therapy Meeting, Seattle, WA, Website
- May 31-June 1: Functional Imaging for Regenerative Medicine Workshop, hosted by MATES, NIST-Gaithersberg, MD, Website
- May 23-24: Improving Animal Models for Regenerative Medicine, Lister Hill Auditorium, NIH Bethesda, MD, Website
- April 29-May 2: Third International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering, Seattle, WA, Website
- April 26-28: Biologic Scaffolds for Regenerative Medicine: Seventh Symposium, Napa Valley, CA, Website
2011
- November 2-4: World Conference on Regenerative Medicine, Leipzig, Germany
- September 4-9: Twenty-fourth European Conference on Biomaterials, Dublin, Ireland
- July 30-August 3: Controlled Release Society Thirty-Eighth Annual Meeting & Exposition, National Harbor, MD [a website for this event is not yet available]
- June 15-18: ISSCR Ninth Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada [a website for this event is not yet available]
- May 4-7: 2011 Society for Investigative Dermatology Annual Meeting, Phoenix, AZ [a website for this event is not yet available]
- April 13-16: Society For Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition, Orlando, FL
Funding Opportunity Announcements
Date Posted: February 11, 2013
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PAR-13-114
Title: Improvement of Animal Models for Stem Cell-Based Regenerative Medicine (R01)
Closing Date: Feb 5, June 5, Oct 5 (Announcement expires May 8, 2016)
Date Posted: February 11, 2013
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PAR-13-115
Title: Improvement of Animal Models for Stem Cell-Based Regenerative Medicine (R21)
Closing Date: March 16, July 16, Nov 16 (Announcement expires May 8, 2016)
Date Posted: February 11, 2013
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PAR-13-113
Title: Improvement of Animal Models for Stem Cell-Based Regenerative Medicine (R24)
Closing Date: Jan 25, May 25, Sept 25 (Announcement expires May 8, 2016)
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Publications, Documents, and Sites of Interest
News Aggregators
Selected Recent Articles and Press Releases
- Sun, Ning et al"Stem Cells: Patient-Specific Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells as a Model for Familial Dilated Cardiomyopathy" Sci Trans Med, University of Minnesota Academic Health Center, April 18, 2012
- "Researchers Use Stem Cells to Treat Children with Life-Threatening, Blistering Skin Disease" [press release], University of Minnesota Academic Health Center, August 12, 2010
- "New insights into how stem cells determine what tissue to become" [press release], University of Michigan News Service, August 1, 2010
- "Unearthing King Tet: Key protein influences stem cell fate" [press release], UNC Health Care System, July 18, 2010
- "A new generation of biological scaffolds" [press release], UK National Stem Cell Network, July 14, 2010
- "Researchers create breathing lungs in lab" [press release], University of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center and Medical School, June 25, 2010
- Basak E Uygun, et al., "Organ reengineering through development of a transplantable recellularized liver graft using decellularized liver matrix" [report], Nature Medicine 16, 814-820 (2010) [Subscription required]
- Dongeun Huh, et al., "Reconstituting Organ-Level Lung Functions on a Chip," Science, June 25, 2010 [Subscription required]
- Nidhi Subbaraman, "Breathing New Life into Old Lungs" Technology Review, June 24, 2010
- "Body's Own Stem Cells Can Lead to Tooth Regeneration" [press release], Columbia University Medical Center, May 19, 2010
- "Gene helps worm regrow missing head" [press release], Futurity, April 23, 2010
- "Promoting Healing by Keeping Skeletal Stem Cells 'Young'" [press release], University of Rochester Medical Center, March 30, 2010
- Elisa Närvä, et al., "High-resolution DNA analysis of human embryonic stem cell lines reveals culture-induced copy number changes and loss of heterozygosity," Nature Biotechnology 28, 371-377 (2010), published online March 28, 2010
- "Replacement Bones, Grown to Order in the Lab," The New York Times, March 26, 2010
- "Duke Scientists Uncover Cells that Mend a Broken Heart" [press release], Duke Medicine News and Communications, March 24, 2010
- "CU Discovery of Cellular "Switch" May Provide New Means of Triggering Cell Death, Treating Human Diseases" [press release], University of Colorado at Boulder, March 11, 2010
- "New Method to Grow Arteries Could Lead to "Biological Bypass" for Heart Disease" [press release], Yale University Office of Public Affairs, March 9, 2010
- "Disarming Specialized Stem Cells Might Combat Deadly Ovarian Cancer" [press release], Yale University Office of Public Affairs, January 27, 2010
- Thomas Vierbuchen, et al., "Direct conversion of fibroblasts to functional neurons by defined factors," Nature [advance online publication], January 27, 2010 [Subscription required]
- Nicole Casal Moore, "Rock-a-bye embryo to improve in vitro rates," via Futurity, January 19, 2010
- Jennifer Fitzenberger, "Stroke therapy successful in animal tests," via Futurity, January 13, 2010
- Tom Rickey, "'Macho' receptor slows wound healing," via Futurity, January 5, 2010
- Maryalice Yakutchik, "Mature brain recycles embryonic circuit maker," via Futurity, December 28. 2009
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Conference Programs and Reports
- Program and Abstract Book for the Eleventh U.S.-Japan Cellular and Gene Therapy Conference on Tissue Engineering, February 28, 2008, Bethesda, MD (PDF, 323.2kb)
- Program Book for the Society for Biological Engineering First International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering: "From Benchtop to Bioprocess," Coronado Island, CA, January 20-23, 2008 (PDF, 1.6mb)
- "ASTM Subcommittee on Cell Signaling (F04.46)," a PowerPoint summary of the meeting of ASTM Subcommittee F04.46 on Standards for Cell Signaling, Norfolk VA, May 24, 2007, by Anne L. Plant, Ph.D., Leader, Cell and Tissue Measurements Group, Biochemical Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology. (PPT, 1.3mb)
- "What lies at the interface of regenerative medicine and developmental biology?" by Donald E. Ingber and Michael Levin. Review of the recent Keystone Symposium Tissue Engineering and Developmental Biology. Development 134, 2541-2547, 2007. (PDF, 199.7kb)
- Workshop on Stem Cell Research For Regenerative Medicine And Tissue Engineering, February 1-2, 2007, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA. Includes Proceedings and Agenda
- European Science Foundation. 2005. Nanomedicine: An ESF - European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) Forward Look Report, prepared by Ruth Duncan, et al. (PDF, 3.1mb)
- Huesing, B., B. Buerhlen, and S. Gaisser. 2003. Human tissue engineered products: Today's markets and future prospects. Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research. (PDF)
- Zucker, H., et al., 2020: A New Vision - A Future for Regenerative Medicine (Department of Health and Human Services, September 2005) (also available in PDF)
- "Scientists call for more liberal regulations for stem cell research in Germany," a press release summarizing the highlights of the international workshop, Germany and Europe - Partnership in Regenerative Medicine: Strategies for Advancing Tissue Science and Engineering held on December 2, 2005 in Berlin, sponsored by the German Society for Regenerative Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft før Regenerative Medizin e.V., GRM)
- Cassman, M., et al., WTEC Panel on Systems Biology, Final Report (Baltimore, MD: WTEC, Inc., October 2005)
- Anne L. Plant and Emanuel Horowitz, Proceedings of the Symposium on Metrology and Standards for Cell Signaling: Impact on Tissue Engineering, National Institute for Standards and Technology, October 14-15, 2003. Published in Tissue Engineering 11: 7-8 (July 2005), 985-990. (registration required)
- Commercialisation of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, London, UK, November 18-19, 2004
- Interagency Workshop on Research at the Interface of the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, May 10, 2004
- The Emergence of Tissue Engineering as a Research Field, Arlington, Virginia, October 14, 2003
- NIST/ASTM Symposium on Metrology and Standards for Cell Signaling: Impact on Tissue Engineering, Gaithersburg, Maryland, October 14-15, 2003
- Symposium on Catalyzing Team Science, Bethesda, Maryland, June 23-24, 2003
- WTEC Workshop on Assessment of European, Japanese, and U.S. Research and Development in Biosensing, Bethesda, Maryland, May 13, 2003
- Final Report, BECON 2002 Symposium: Sensors in Biological Research and Medicine, June 24-25, 2002 (PDF)
- Final Report, BECON 2001 Symposium: Reparative Medicine: Growing Tissues and Organs, Bethesda, Maryland, June 25-26, 2001 (PDF)
- WTEC Study on Tissue Engineering Research:
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