September is Childhood Cancer Awareness Month and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is joining the campaign to #GoGold to raise awareness about childhood cancers and high...
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2023/09/13/cirm-joins-gogold-childhood-cancer-awareness-campaign/
Ysabel Duron is an award-winning journalist, patient advocate, cancer survivor and board member of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Her list of achievements continues ...
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) is investing $4 million to support Dr. William Murphy and UC Davis researchers to develop and test a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T...
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2023/01/12/investing-in-car-t-cell-therapy-to-treat-cancer/
Adult acute myelogenous leukemia—also known as acute myeloid leukemia (AML)—is a blood cancer in which the bone marrow makes a large number of abnormal blood cells. About 20,000 new cases o...
Blood stem cell transplantation following high dose chemotherapy is standard of care and potentially curative for aggressive forms of lymphoma. However, this treatment regimen is limited by sever...
THIS BLOG IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIO CAST While stem cell and gene therapy research has advanced dramatically in recent years, there are still many unknowns and many questions remaining about ...
THIS BLOG IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS AN AUDIO CAST Oncternal Therapeutics, Inc. is celebrating an encouraging milestone at the start of the new year following a successful End-of-Phase 2 meeting wi...
THIS BLOG CAN ALSO BE HEARD AS AN AUDIOCAST ON SPOTIFY As far as Aldo Pourchet is concerned you are never too young to learn about stem cells. Aldo should know. He’s a molecular and cellular bi...
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2021/09/17/using-a-stem-cells-journey-to-teach-kids-science/
In this job you get to meet a lot of remarkable people, none more so than the patients who volunteer to take part in what are giant experiments. They are courageous pioneers, willing to be among ...
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2021/04/14/saying-thanks-and-farewell-to-a-friend/
Every so often you hear a story and your first reaction is “oh, I have to share this with someone, anyone, everyone.” That’s what happened to me the other day. I was talking with Kristin Ma...
https://blog.cirm.ca.gov/2020/09/10/meet-the-people-who-are-changing-the-future/