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Susan Cheng, MD, MPH, MMSc, recalls hearing the first reports of a mysterious illness in China early last year and thinking: "This is going to be important."As a scientist, she was fascinated by the capricious nature of the disease as it severely affected certain healthy individuals while ... Read more

sen, PhD, executive director of the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute. "It is revolutionary by virtue of elevating regenerative medicine and its therapeutic possibilities to an entirely new level—repairing the human body."Among the facility's initial ... Read more

Richard Jacobs, host of the widely followed "Finding Genius Podcast," devoted a recent half-hour episode to interviewing Cedars-Sinai investigators about their pioneering research on COVID-19 (coronavirus). Clive Svendsen, PhD, director of the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerativ ... Read more

A new study shows that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19 (coronavirus), can infect heart cells in a lab dish, indicating it may be possible for heart cells in COVID-19 patients to be directly infected by the virus. The discovery, published today in the journal Cell Reports Medicine, was mad ... Read more

Is the future of personalized medicine out of this world? Cedars-Sinai is trying to find out by launching special stem cells into space to see if they multiply better there.The Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute is partnering with Space Tango of Lexington, Kentucky, to s ... Read more

t treatment options for our patients." The new center brings together medical and scientific experts from a range of disciplines, including regenerative medicine, sports medicine, anesthesia and spine surgery. Among the leaders are Dmitriy Sheyn, PhD, research scientist; Mark Vrahas, ... Read more

People who develop Parkinson’s disease before age 50 may have been born with disordered brain cells that went undetected for decades, according to new Cedars-Sinai research. The research points to a drug that potentially might help correct these disease processes.Parkinson’s occurs when ... Read more

Park Labrea News and Beverly Press recently wrote about about a new Cedars-Sinai clinical trial that aims to test the safety of using stem cell technology as a potential treatment for retinitis pigmentosa, an inherited eye disease with no known cure. The clinical trial, which was approved by ... Read more

Huntington’s Disease News recently featured a Cedars-Sinai research study published in the Journal of Huntington’s Disease that suggests nerve cell development is delayed in juvenile Huntington’s disease (JHD).Specifically, the study – led by scientists in The Board of Govern ... Read more

Geek Wire recently featured the five recipients of the 2019 Allen Distinguished Investigators award, including Clive Svendsen, PhD, professor of Biomedical Sciences and Medicine and director of the Cedars-Sinai Board of Governors Regenerative Medicine Institute. The awards, totaling $7.5 million, ... Read more