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UCSF faculty receive $13.7M from CIRM for stem cell research
Date:8/19/2008

agents that slow, halt or reverse the cellular damage, he notes. ($2,259,092 grant)

  • Holger Willenbring, MD -- He will investigate the genes that establish the function of early-stage liver cells. His goal is to use this knowledge to prompt human embryonic stem cells to specialize as early-stage liver cells in the culture dish. If he succeeds, he'll transplant the cells into a mouse model of human liver disease. This would be proof of principle for the potential of embryonic stem cells for liver cell therapy, he says. ($3,032,510 grant)


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