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The Sanford Stem Cell Institute (SSCI) ReGen Podcast features engaging and innovative discussions with a focus on the following topics: stem cell science; regenerative medicine; clinical trials; research outcomes; and, space and low Earth orbit-based research. Guests include UC San Diego Sanford SSCI experts and team members, academic luminaries, Nobel laureates, and industry and government leaders in the field. The ReGen Podcast is based in San Diego, CA, and is hosted by SSCI team member B ...
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Dr. Catriona Jamieson | The Search for Cancer Cures in Outer Space
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This episode’s conversation focuses on the innovative work of Dr. Catriona Jamieson, Director of the Sanford Stem Cell Institute at UC San Diego, and the Axiom-4 (Ax-4) launch. This space research mission includes the Institute’s testing of the efficacy of “rebecsnib” on tumor organoids derived from cancer stem cells of consenting patients with sec…
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Stem Cells 101 with Dr. Sheldon Morris, UC San Diego
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Our conversation with Dr. Sheldon Morris, M.D., MPH, includes an overview of stem cells and some of the basics of regenerative medicine. Our Stem Cells 101 episode provides listeners with high-level, foundational knowledge about research and therapeutic treatments, clinical trials and related work from Dr. Morris and his team at the UC San Diego Sa…
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Davide Marotta, Ph.D.: Science on the International Space Station
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The Sanford Stem Cell Institute’s Bobby Gordon sits down with Davide Marotta, Ph.D., program director of in-space biomanufacturing at the International Space Station National Laboratory (ISSNL), to discuss the innovative low-Earth orbit economy and the future of science in space. We also discuss ISSNL's collaborations with UC San Diego's Sanford St…
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Jessica Pham: Making Space-Based Cancer Research Possible
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Jessica Pham — manager of Dr. Catriona Jamieson’s lab at the University of California San Diego and Stellar Mission Specialist at its Sanford Stem Cell Institute — has successfully prepared seven research payloads for transport to the International Space Station. There, astronaut-scientists have used the tumor organoids she creates from the stem ce…
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Dr. John Dick on Stem Cells & Blood Cancer
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Our conversation explores the work of John E. Dick, Ph.D., FRS, senior scientist and cancer research chair at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, of the University Health Network; professor of molecular genetics at the University of Toronto; and co-leader of the Acute Leukemia Translational Research Init…
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Jana Stoudemire, Stem Cells and the Space Industry
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Our conversation with Jana Stoudemire, M.S., highlights her expansive career. Among her chief accomplishments: creating new market sectors in the low-Earth orbit economy, for in-space manufacturing of biomedical and advanced material applications. Stoudemire transitioned away from pharma to help lead microgravity life science research at the Center…
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Thomas Cech, Ph.D., University of Colorado
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Dr. Cech grew up in Iowa, attending Grinnell College (B.A.) and then UC-Berkeley (Ph.D.). After postdoctoral research at M.I.T., he joined the faculty of the University of Colorado Boulder in 1978. In 1982 Dr. Cech and his research group announced RNA self-splicing in Tetrahymena, providing the first exception to the long-held belief that biologica…
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Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D. | Nobel Laureate | Salk Institute for Biological Studies
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This episode features our conversation with Elizabeth Blackburn, Ph.D., Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, CA. She won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2009 for discovering the molecular nature of telomeres, the ends of chromosomes that serve as protective caps essential for preserv…
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