New Frontiers in Medicine

Featured Centers/Institutes/Projects

• Research Centers
  • Jonssonn Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC)
  • Ahmanson Biological Imaging Clinic
  • UCLA Biomedical Engineering (BME)
  • UCLA Center for East-West Medicine
• Institutes
  • Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine (ISCBM)
  • UCLA Molecular and Medical Pharmacology
  • Neuropsychiatric Institute
• Schools
  • David Geffen School of Medicine (DGOSM)

Leadership

• Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine (ISCBM)

  Director
  Owen N. Witte, MD
  Professor of microbiology, immunology and molecular genetics
  Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator

  Co-director
  Judith C. Gasson, Ph.D.
  Director, UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
  Professor of medicine and biological chemistry

  Co-director
  Utpal Banerjee, Ph.D.
  Chair, Department of Molecular, Cell and Developmental Biology

• Judith Gasson
  Director, JCCC

• Ka-Kit Hui
  Director, UCLA Center for East-West Medicine

• Gerald S. Levey
  Dean, David Geffen School of Medicine
  

News

• Leukemia Stem Cells Identified
  Science Daily, May 27, 2008
  
  Stem cell researchers at UCLA have identified a type of leukemia stem cell and uncovered the molecular and genetic mechanisms that cause a normal blood stem cells to become cancerous. The discovery may lead to new therapies that target these leukemia stem cells, attacking the disease at its very root and killing the early cells that give rise to the mature cancer cells.
  

• UCLA center receives $19.8 million grant to build new facilities for stem cell research
  UCLA Today, May 7, 2008
  
  

  UCLA's stem cell center received today (May 7) $19.8 million from the state to build new facilities to conduct human embryonic stem cell research.

  The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), which administers Proposition 71 stem cell research funds, awarded the grant for UCLA to create a CIRM Institute, one of three types of facilities for which institutions statewide were allowed to submit grant applications. CIRM Institutes received the largest grants and will focus on basic and discovery stem cell research, preclinical translational research and preclinical development and clinical research.
  

• UCLA study opens new stem cell route
  By Melissa Evans, DailyBreeze, February 10, 2008
  

• Stem cells created without destroying embryos
  By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times, January 11, 2008
  

• Latest state grants to conduct stem cell research go to three UCLA scientists
  By Kim Irwin, UCLA Today, December 13, 2007

• War on cancer moves to a new front
  By Chandra Shekhar, Los Angeles Times, December 10, 2007

• Broad Foundation Donates $20 Million to UCLA Stem Cell Institute
  September 10, 2007