Honors

David Mack is the inaugural recipient of a new multi-year award established by Larry and Eileen Tietze for mid-career level scientists. The grant will support efforts to engineer stem cell-derived neuromuscular junctions for the purpose of studying the onset of neuromuscular diseases and testing potential therapeutics.

Three members of the NDRG team; Changho Chun, Hunter Furutani and Cecelia Watson received awards as ISCRM Fellows for fiscal year 2021/2022

Alec Smith has been awarded an Innovation Pilot Award by ISCRM. This Washington-State-funded one year grant will fund research into the effect of Duchenne muscular dystrophy on muscle spindles, the sensory receptor structures within skeletal muscle that allow us to sense the extent and speed of contraction of our muscles to permit coordinated movement.

Alec Smith has been awarded a University of Washington RRF grant for $40,000. The funded project is entitled “Using functional readouts from engineered models of innervated skeletal muscle to assess the efficacy of gene therapies targeting neuromuscular diseases”.

Today Changho Chun was informed that he has been awarded a predoctoral trainee position from the ISCRM Fellows program. The traineeship will support his work developing improved methods for producing induced pluripotent stem cell-based in vitro models of human ventral spinal cord, to be used for study of motor neuron diseases.