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Today’s UC Irvine Stem Cell Research Center is a dynamic center encompassing a diverse array of interdisciplinary investigators that span the schools of Medicine, Biological Sciences, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering, Arts, and the Program in Public Health. Our state-of-the-art, LEED Platinum certified research and clinical building houses 25 of our 65 center faculty members.
Center faculty have obtained more than $275 million dollars in grant and foundation funds, including over $165 million dollars from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Our research programs include two National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored T32 training grants, NIH R25 training program, 2 CIRM training grants supporting trainees from undergraduate through to postdoctoral and clinical fellows, a NIAMS P30 skin biology research center grant, state-of-the-art shared equipment and research services cores, community lecture series, an annual stem cell science symposium, and numerous seminar series.
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Maksim Plikus, a UC Irvine professor, along with Raul Ramos, a postdoctoral researcher in the Plikus laboratory and the study’s lead author, says, “Lipochondrocytes are not fat cells, nor are they conventional cartilage cells. They represent cells of a distinct skeletal tissue type that uses lipids in a way we’ve never seen before.”
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Events
2 May.
Sarah Heilshorn, Ph.D.
Stanford University
Gross Hall, 4th Floor Thorp Conference Center
May 2, 2025|11:00 AM—12:00 Pm Pacific Time||In-Person Only
6 May.
Gross Hall, Thorp Conference Center
Tuesday, May 6, 2025 | 7:00 PM – 8:00PM Pacific Time
30 May.
Associate Professor Department of Dermatology
Mouth Sinai—Icahn School of Medii-cine
Zoom Meeting or Gross Hall, Thorp Conference Center 4000
Friday, May 30, 2025 | 11:00AM—12:00PM Pacific Time
20 Jun.
Associate Professor Department of Dermatology
UCSF
Zoom Meeting or Gross Hall, Thorp Conference Center 4000
Friday, Jun 20, 2025 | 11:00AM—12:00PM Pacific Time