{"id":79260,"date":"2013-06-11T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T19:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=79260"},"modified":"2015-10-14T11:43:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T15:43:34","slug":"uconn-health-center-researchers-awarded-state-stem-cell-funds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2013\/06\/uconn-health-center-researchers-awarded-state-stem-cell-funds\/","title":{"rendered":"Health Center Researchers Awarded State Stem Cell Funds"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left, ImStem Biotechnology\u2019s Drs. Xiaofang Wang and Ren-He Xu were awarded $1.1 million in state stem cell funding. (Tina Encarnacion\/UConn Health Center Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Nine scientists at the University of Connecticut Health Center received grant awards Monday totaling $4.5 million from the Connecticut Stem Cell Research Program, making UConn the largest recipient of the $9.8 million total grants awarded this year.<\/p>\n

Included in the UConn awards was $1.1 million for ImStem<\/a>, a company launched from the Health Center stem cell core facility and directed by Dr. Ren-He Xu<\/a>. The goal of ImStem is to explore new approaches to utilizing human embryonic stem cell lines for future clinical applications, such as developing a treatment for multiple sclerosis. ImStem is the second UConn-launched company to be funded by the state\u2019s stem cell fund. The first was Chondrogenics, Inc<\/a>., a company seeking to develop a stem cell-based treatment for cartilage repair and osteoarthritis.<\/p>\n

UConn investigators and their companies have been awarded $37.25 million since the state stem cell funding program was launched in 2006.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis support has allowed us to develop world-class stem cell research projects and to contribute to the state’s economic development through Bioscience Connecticut<\/a>,\u201d says Marc Lalande<\/a>, director of UConn\u2019s Stem Cell Institute and its Institute for Systems Genomics. \u201cThe timing of these awards couldn’t be better given the current reductions in federal funding for biomedical research.\u201d<\/p>\n

Two Health Center researchers received grants of $750,000 each: \u00a0Christopher Heinen<\/a>, assistant professor of medicine, for his research using human embryonic and induced pluripotent stem cells to test the significance of hereditary cancer-associated variants; and Kristen Martins-Taylor<\/a>, assistant professor of genetics and developmental biology, for her research uncovering molecular pathways disrupted in Prader-Willi Syndrome.<\/p>\n

Here is a complete list of state stem cell funds awarded to UConn researchers:<\/p>\n

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Nine UConn scientists garnered a total of $4.5 million, the most for any Connecticut institution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":72954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2231,179],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-79260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","category-uconn-health"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 13:29:54","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79260"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105198,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79260\/revisions\/105198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/72954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79260"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=79260"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=79260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}