Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine

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Stem cells occur naturally in our bodies. They have the remarkable ability to turn into any kind of tissue the body needs. Today, science is learning how to harness this ability - to use the power of our own biology to cure disease. Already, for example, we are growing live, beating heart cells that someday will be used to replace tissues damaged by heart disease.

Bone Marrow Cells

The University of Washington is poised to be a leader in this emerging effort. As research organizations across the country compete for resources, the University's Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine has a number of crucial advantages at the starting gate:

• Unlike many universities, the UW has an extraordinary collection of talent in the fields necessary to pursue stem cell and regenerative medicine. The institute brings together scientists from developmental biology, pharmacology, nanotechnology, genome sciences, and many other disciplines. Other universities are faced with the daunting task of having to assemble all this talent.
• The UW also has a long and substantial record of unique research in the field; in fact, the University is known as the birthplace of stem cell research, having performed the world's first bone marrow transplant.
• The University also has another key resource: space. A new state-of-the-art research campus in Seattle's South Lake Union neighborhood is being built. Some of the institute's researchers already occupy labs there. Having all of the researchers in one campus encourages the collaboration needed for these efforts.

Your gift today will support efforts by the Institute for Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine to find new and dramatically better ways to combat Alzheimer's, heart disease, and many other deadly diseases that touch millions of lives.

How to Reach Us

Lynn Hogan
Associate Vice President for Development and Alumni Relations
UW Medicine Development
University of Washington
Box 358220
Seattle, Washington 98195-8220
206.543.6865