Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center

UC Irvine named one of CIRM’s cell and gene therapy manufacturing facilities

$2 million state grant allows campus stem cell center to advance regenerative medicine

September 28, 2023

UC Irvine research team identifies glycosylation enzyme critical in brain formation

Findings may contribute to new therapeutic uses for neural stem cells

May 16, 2023

UCI earns designation as CIRM Alpha Clinic with five-year, $8 million grant

Campus will launch micronetwork focused on expanding stem cell clinical trial access

October 27, 2022

CIRM awards UCI $2.7 million to create regenerative medicine training program

Brian Cummings, UCI professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation and founding member of the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, has received a five-year, $2.7 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to establish a training program that supports first-generation and underserved students pursuing careers in public health and regenerative medicine. […]

September 14, 2022

UCI team gets $970,000 NIH grant to launch interdisciplinary skin biology training effort

A team from the UCI Skin Biology Resource Center has been awarded a five-year, $970,000 grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases to launch an interdisciplinary skin biology training program. Designed to develop the next generation of interdisciplinary research physicians and scientist leaders in academia and industry, the program takes advantage […]

May 06, 2022

Vanessa Scarfone (left), flow & mass cytometry core manager at the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center, and research associate Pauline Nguyen analyze data from the first Helios experiment.

Novel instrument could transform research at UCI

Mass cytometer expands cell profiling capabilities of scientists across campus

January 18, 2022

$5.5 million CIRM grant to fund development of new cervical spinal cord injury therapeutic

Aileen Anderson, director of UCI’s Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center and professor of physical medicine & rehabilitation, has been awarded a 30-month, $5.5 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. The funds will be used in the development of a new human neural stem cell therapeutic for treating chronic cervical […]

November 30, 2021

Jonathan Lakey (right), UCI professor of surgery and biomedical engineering, and Reza Mohammadi, who earned a doctorate in materials science and engineering at UCI