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Empire State Stem Cell Board awards $12.7 million to Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Date:3/11/2009

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"These three units, together with our newly created Stem Cell Institute and Epigenomics Center, will place Einstein at the cutting edge of technology and at the forefront of the fast-evolving stem cell field," said Dr. Bouhassira. The Center's units will be directed by Dr. Bouhassira (Stem Cell Production), Drs. Sanjeev Gupta and Ulrich Steidl (Xenotransplantation), and Dr. John Greally (Genomics).

$6.7 Million Einstein Award

An award of $6.72 million will support nine separate research projects, including studies of basic stem cell biology and of potential therapies for obesity, leukemia, hepatitis, and age-related diseases.

Principal Investigators and their research projects include:

  • Ulrich Steidl, M.D., Ph.D., assistant professor of cell biology and the Diane and Arthur B. Belfer Faculty Scholar in Cancer Research $1,201,499
    Identifying epigenomic determinants of hematopoietic stem cell commitment.

  • Jayanta Roy-Chowdhury, M.B., B.S., professor of medicine; genetics $1,080,000
    Amelioration of hepatic metabolic defects by stem cell-derived human hepatocytes.

  • Jeffrey E. Pessin, Ph.D., the Judy R. & Alfred A. Rosenberg Professsor of Diabetes Research; director of the Diabetes Research and Training Center $1,080,000
    Identification of adipocyte progenitor cells during adipose tissue turnover and obesity.

  • Carl Schildkraut, Ph.D., professor of cell biology $1,080,000
    Differential regulation of DNA replication during neural lineage specification in human embryonic stem cells and human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells.

  • Charles E. Rogler, Ph.D., professor of medicine; microbiology & immunology $1,069,157
    Roles of microRNAs in hepatic stem cell differentiation; transcriptional control of cancer stem cells in acute myeloid leukemia.

  • Eric Bouhassira, Ph.D., the Ingeborg and Ira Leon Rennert Professor
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Contact: Deirdre Branley
dbranley@aecom.yu.edu
718-430-2923
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
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