Items Tagged ‘stem cell’
August 31, 2016
Uniting the Regenerative Medicine Community
The Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine will co-host the 2016 World Stem Cell Summit December 6-9 in West Palm Beach, FL. Organized by the Regenerative Medicine Foundation (RMF), the Summit forges collaborations to advance cell therapies, while creating a supportive environment of regulation, legislation, financing, reimbursement and patient advocacy. The Summit is the largest […]
Tags: Mayo Clinic, regenerative medicine, stem cell, World Stem Cell Summit
August 26, 2016
New Strategies Could Make Laryngectomies a Thing of the Past
Previously published in Mayo Clinic Magazine Today, about 60,000 Americans have had their larynx removed due to disease or trauma. These people are missing out on many of life’s little pleasures because the procedure’s resultant hole left them without a voice and created an opening directly into their lungs. A simple shower is dangerous as even the slightest amount of water in the […]
Tags: Dr. Lott, ENT, Laryngectomy, larynx, Larynx Transplantation, Mayo Clinic, regenerative medicine, stem cell
December 8, 2015
Mayo Clinic Center for Regenerative Medicine to Co-Host World Stem Cell Summit in Atlanta
The World Stem Cell Summit, December 10-12 in Atlanta, unites and educates the global stem cell community. With more than 1,200 attendees from more than 40 countries, the annual World Stem Cell Summit’s interdisciplinary agenda explores disease updates, research directions, cell standardization, regulatory pathways, reimbursements, financing, venture capital and economic development. Throughout the week, the […]
Tags: Andre Terzic, Mayo Clinic, regenerative medicine, research, stem cell, stem cells, World Stem Cell Summit, WSCS
July 10, 2015
New Lung Restoration Center to Bolster Lung Transplants
Mayo Clinic, in collaboration with United Therapeutics Corporation, plans to change the landscape of lung transplantation with the construction of the new Lung Restoration Center in Jacksonville, Florida. The new center will use a process called ex vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) to revitalize donated lungs, allowing doctors to utilize organs that would otherwise not be […]
Tags: Dr. Gianrico Farrugia, Florida, Lung Restoration, Lung Transplant, Mayo Clinic, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Medical Research, News Release, regenerative medicine, research, stem cell, Transplantation
May 6, 2014
Organizers of 2014 World Stem Cell Summit Announced
Genetics Policy Institute (GPI) recently announced the organizing partners of the 10th annual meeting of the global stem cell community, shaping the next year of progress in regenerative medicine. Mayo Clinic, the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Kyoto University Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sciences and BioBridge Global have joined GPI to organize the […]
Tags: Andre Terzic, bernard siegel, genetics policy institute, Mayo Clinic, regenerative medicine, stem cell, World Stem Cell Summit