RMM Grants Awarded

See where grants have been awarded across Minnesota.
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Alicia Wallis, PhD
Miltenyi CliniMACS Equipment Grant
Equipment for CD34 cell isolation and selection in our planned cGMP operation for regenerative medicine.
2018-2019
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Satsuki Yamada, MD, PhD
Multi-Modal Imaging Platform for Monitoring Regenerative Therapy
This proposal aims to establish the state‐of‐the‐art ultrasound platform armed with photoacoustic technology specialized for regenerative therapies…
2018-2019
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James R. Thompson, PhD
Molecular Farming of BMPs and Fibronectin
The goal of this project is to prove that commercial production of regenerative proteins can be made consistently and with a significant cost…
2018-2019
Troy C. Lund, MD, PhD
Accelerating hematopoietic cell regeneration
Successful bone marrow transplant is the only way to cure a number of cancers, bone marrow failure syndromes, and other serious blood disease (like…
2018-2020
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Joseph Lillegard, MD, Phd
Gene therapy of hereditary Tyrosinemia Type I using in vivo lentiviral vectors
Hereditary Tyrosinemia Type 1 (HT1) is a genetic disorder that can lead to liver and kidney failure, and is fatal without treatment. There is no…
2018-2020
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Daniel Garry, MD, PhD
Bioengineering strategies for cardiovascular disease and regeneration
Cardiovascular disease is the most common cause of death in the United States, and many patients need heart transplants to survive. Currently,…
2018-2020
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Terrence C. Burns, MD, PhD
Safety and mechanisms of senolytic therapy for central nervous system rejuvenation
The decline of memory and thinking processes seen in aging, neurodegenerative diseases (like Alzheimer’s disease), and exposure of the brain to…
2018-2020
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Raghavendra Rao, MD
Neuroprotection Using Human Extremely Low Gestational Age Neonate-Derived Umbilical Cord Blood Stem Cells in Neonatal Hemorrhagic Brain Injury
Each year in the United States, 12,000 extremely preterm infants (birth before 28 weeks of pregnancy) develop bleeding within the brain soon after…
2018-2020
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Robert Tranquillo, PhD
Regenerative vein valve
Millions of U.S. citizens suffer from vein valve insufficiency, often resulting in chronic leg ulcers that cause pain, immobility, and a reduced…
2018-2020
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Marija Cvetanovic, PhD
Determining therapeutic potential of BDNF in delaying the onset and progression of Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1)
Spinocerebellar ataxia type 1 (SCA1) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease with no available therapies. This proposal will determine therapeutic…
2018-2020
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Alexander Revzin, PhD
Engineering microcapsules for stem cell cultivation and transplantation
The goal of this project is to develop microcapsules that could be used as cell carriers during differentiation of stem cells into pancreatic…
2018-2020
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Ping Chen, PhD
Regeneration of hypothalamic neuro-architecture using liver enzyme gene transfer as an approach to treat post-dieting body weight rebound
The major challenge in treating obesity is not just losing weight, but preventing weight from coming back. This proposal examines a new treatment…
2018-2019