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...Prior to the creation of the institute, faculty members were already doing stem cell research, but the institute created an organizational umbrella in order to cut across institutional lines, says Executive Director Brock C. Reeve...
...need multiple skill sets. For cardiac stem cell research, you need stem cell biologists, developmental biologists, cardiologists, and engineers,” Reeve says. “You need multiple discipline sets in order to ultimately be able to cure certain diseases...
...Harvard Stem Cell Institute has energized our work because it provided an immediate exchange of information,” including “technical, procedural help with resources such as stem cell cultures and interactions with experts in fields where we were not experts,” says Ole S. Isacson, a professor of neurology at the Medical School. Isacson’s lab, which is affiliated with the institute, uses embryonic stem cells as substitute neurons for cells that have died in brains afflicted with Parkinson?...
...great chance to receive feedback from some of the best stem cell scientists in the world,” says Jaime Imitola, an instructor of neurology at the Medical School...
...with this new model, researchers within HSCI have been successful. Albert Edge, an associate professor of otology and laryngology at the Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, says that his lab has been able to show in animal models that the auditory nerve can be replaced with embryonic stem cells—provided by HSCI—in order to correct deafness and hearing loss...