Alec Smith has been chosen to receive an ISCRM Innovation Pilot Award to study mechanisms that control mis-localization and aggregation of TDP-43 in ALS and other neurodegenerative disorders.
Alec Smith Receives ISCRM IPA Award Read More »
Sofia Jepson has been awarded an ISCRM Fellowship for 2025-2026. This fellowship will support Sofia’s ground-breaking work creating in vitro models of muscle spindles, the mysterious sensory end-organs that allow us to sense and correctly control the state of contraction of individual muscles.
Sofia Jepson awarded ISCRM Fellowship Read More »
On Monday, August 14, Cecelia Watson successfully defended her Masters dissertation “Investigation of Neuregulin-1 Treatment in 3D engineered skeletal muscle toward Intrafusal Spindle Fiber Generation in vitro”.
On Tuesday, August 15, Saffie Mohran successfully defended his PhD dissertation “The modulation of myofibril function: How small molecules and sarcomeric mutations impact actomyosin interactions”.
Congratulations Cecelia and Saffie!
Advanced degrees awarded to members of the NDRG team Read More »
The paper “Creating stem cell-derived neuromuscular junctions in vitro” published by NDRG investigators in Muscle and Nerve has been cited as among the journal’ frequently downloaded papers.
Highly popular NDRG publication in Muscle & Nerve Read More »
Alec Smith’s work is profiled in this recent article.
Developing an Integrated Neuromuscular Modeling System| ISCRM (uw.edu)
Alec Smith’s work profiled Read More »
The University of Washington has featured Alec Smith’s profile in its New Faculty Spotlight.
UW “New Faculty” Profile for Alec Smith Read More »
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.
David Mack Receives Grant Award Read More »
Three members of the NDRG team; Changho Chun, Hunter Furutani and Cecelia Watson received awards as ISCRM Fellows for fiscal year 2021/2022
ISCRM Fellows Awards to Changho Chun, Hunter Furutani, and Cecelia Watson Read More »
Samantha Bremner and NDRG co-workers Karen Gaffney, Nathan Sniadecki, and David Mack have published a paper entitled “A Change of Heart: Human Cardiac Tissue Engineering as a Platform for Drug Development” in the journal Current Cardiology Reports.
A Change of Heart: Human Cardiac Tissue Engineering as a Platform for Drug Development
New paper from the NDRG team Read More »
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”.
Royalty Research Fund Award to Alec Smith Read More »
