We were lucky enough to host Dr. Lynne Boxer, Veterinary Medical Officer with the FDA, in our class this week, and we heard from Dr. MA McCrackin last week. We also got to have a bit of reflection on Tuesday. Class participants can choose one of the prompts to follow this week (or you can […]

So glad that Dr. Jia He and Dr. MA McCrackin could present to our group this week. Dr. He tried to convince us that the cardiac system was the most important system and explained the RM approaches to repair and recovery in heart tissues. Were there any issues or approaches that surprised you from his […]

We heard great presentations this week from Dr. Moore, who works with the Institutional Review Board at Virginia Tech, and from Dr. Van Dyke, who works between science and entrepreneurship. They both talked about different legs of moving your research from “bench to bedside” or from the lab into animal and human subjects and to market. Was […]

Sorry for the delay in posting this — This past Thursday, we had a festive social event for all the faculty and students engaged with Regenerative Medicine at Bull & Bones. Thank you to Dr. Michelle Theus and Megan Quesenberry for arranging the party and pumpkin carving! For our class this week, Dr. Anju Seth […]

We witnessed a terrific set of case studies about medical tourism for different procedures this week. Among the topics, we heard student presentations about BIID amputations, Swiss rejuvenation clinics, ips cells for macular regeneration in Japan, stem cell therapies in Russia, three-parent IVF with mt-DNA in the UK, gene therapies in China, kidney transplant in […]