UC Denver med school launches stem-cell center
University of ColoradoDenver’s School of Medicine said Friday that its stem-cell research and treatment programs have been placed under a new regional center.
CU’s Charles C. Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Biology aims to draw more private and federal research funding for the university’s stem-cell programs, as well as to advance stem-cell treatment through a partnership with the Colorado Prevention Center, a nonprofit medical research and disease prevention organization.
“The overall goal is to move stem-cell discoveries into therapies that could revolutionize medicine with new treatments for heart disease, Parkinson’s disease, spinal cord injury, childhood diabetes, cancer and many more,” the medical school said in a statement.
Dennis Roop, who has run stem-cell programs at the university’s Anschutz Medical Campus in Aurora since 2007, heads the new center.
In addition to drawing on the School of Medicine, a unit of UC Denver, the center will include expertise from the University of Colorado at Boulder, Colorado State University,University of Colorado Hospital, the Denver Veterans Administration Medical Center,National Jewish Health and The Children’s Hospital.
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2009 Los Angeles Auto Show
If the North American auto show season has an official kickoff party, the Los Angeles Auto Show is it. In addition to world debuts of the 2011 Cadillac CTS Coupe, 2011 Toyota Sienna and VW Up! Lite Concept, the 2009 LA Auto Show again played host to the Green Car of the Year announcement, which went to a diesel car for the second year in a row. The LA Auto Show is also a first chance to see and touch the cars unveiled around the world in the eight months since the New York Auto Show, which this year included jaw-droppers like the 2011 Lexus LFA and 2011 Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG.
