Archive for the ‘Fund News’ Category

Research Highlights from the JCC Community

November 2, 2018
Recent research published in Science, Nature, and more.

The JCC is pleased to share recent research by current and former JCC Fellows. JCC Fellow Feng Chen, in Holger Willenbring’s lab at UCSF, contributed to a study showing that when disease or injury causes […]

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Cell therapies could act as microscopic “physicians”

July 24, 2018
Kole Roybal won the Sartorius & Science Award for Regenerative Medicine & Cell Therapy

Colorized scanning electron micrograph of a T lymphocyte. Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health T cell therapies have shown remarkable promise for treating cancer. Specially engineered T cells can target […]

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Like Father, Like Son — or not?

June 29, 2018
Experience prevails over genetics in some songbird learning, according to research by David Mets

Caption: This is an image of Bengalese finches. Credit: Brainard lab / UCSF In nature, male Bengalese finches learn their mating songs from their fathers. But how much of that learning is predetermined by genetics? […]

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“A totally new angle in tissue engineering”

June 29, 2018
Alex Hughes harnessed cells' developmental processes to shape living tissues

Caption: This image shows the shapes made of living tissue made by the researchers. By patterning mechanically active mouse or human cells to thin layers of extracellular fibers, the researchers could create bowls, coils, and […]

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mitoCPR Rescues Mitochondria from Certain Death

May 16, 2018
JCC Fellow Hilla Weidberg discovered new protective pathway

Mitochondria — the powerhouses of cells — import molecules to generate energy and many necessary molecules for the cell. But what happens when something goes wrong? This was the big picture question that JCC Fellow […]

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