November 30, 2023
Rebuilding bigger, stronger hearts
Reprint from Mayo Clinic Alumni magazine, 2023, issue 3 Timothy Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., intended to be a cardiothoracic surgeon. “As a student in the Medical Scientist Training Program at the Medical College of Wisconsin, I observed a lot of cases and remember the joys of giving families hope that we could repair defects,” he says. “I […]
Tags: #cardiomyocytes, #Dr. Timothy Nelson, #Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, #Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics
May 31, 2023
Mayo Clinic regenerative biotherapeutics showcased at international conference
Mayo Clinic physicians and scientists are sharing their expertise in regenerative biotherapeutics at a global conference in Paris this week. The International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy (ISCT) conference, Celebrating Progress, Building the Future, is bringing together roughly 2,000 people from around the world that work in industry, academia, government and health care. Together […]
Tags: #Dr. Abba Zubair, #Dr. Allan Dietz, #Dr. Burcin Taner, #Dr. David Lott, #Dr. Julie Allickson, #Dr. Prathibha Varkey, #Dr. Richard Hayden, #Dr. Timothy Nelson, #Dr. Wenchun Qu, #Dr. Yi Lin, #International Society for Cell and Gene Therapy
November 16, 2022
Engineering tissue to strengthen underdeveloped hearts
Could cells taken from a small patch of skin become heart muscle and repair a rare congenital heart defect? It’s a scientific question that Timothy Nelson, M.D., Ph.D., and collaborators hope to answer for those born with an underdeveloped left heart chamber — a rare, complex condition known as hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS). Discovering […]
Tags: #cardiomyocytes, #congenital heart defects, #Dr. Timothy Nelson, #heart cells, #Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome, #Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Biotherapeutics, #Todd and Karen Wanek Family Program for Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome