ISCI NEWS:

How to fix a broken heart? Nature, Vol 460, July 2, 2009
ISCI Director, Dr. Joshua Hare, M.D., and other scientists discuss clues about how human hearts form hint at routes to cell-based therapies... <more>

UM Carries Out Heart Stem Cell Research, CBS4 South Florida, June 29, 2009
Heart attacks have been in the headlines lately with the deaths of Michael Jackson and Billie Mays. As it turns out, a major study is underway right here in South Florida to cure the number one killer in America. Dr. Joshua Hare leads UM's Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute... <more>

Adult stem cells: a revolution in heart medicine? Horizon Scan, May 2009
Roughly 850,000 Americans suffer an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) heart attack every year. Recent medical advances have sharply reduced... <more>

Stem cells help Booker T. Washington coach Barry Brown strengthen his heart, Miami Herald, May 18, 2009
Lying on a hospital bed, Barry Brown thought everything was coming at him too fast. It was July 2008, months before Brown would be selected for Project Prometheus, a groundbreaking University of Miami research study... <more>

UM hoping new administration opens Stem-Cell doors, Miami Today, February 5, 2009
President Obama's promise to lift predecessor President Bush's limits on federal funding for embryonic-stem-cell research could have a profound effect on the work being done at the University of Miami. Dr. Joshua Hare... <more>

Stem cell czar: UM researcher, Dr. Joshua Hare, leads alternative effort, Miami Herald, July 29, 2008
Dr. Joshua Hare believes medicine is close to a goal long thought to be impossible: healing the human heart. The way to get there? Stem cells... <more>

Stem Cell Researchers at UM Enrolling Patients in Heart Failure Study, July 15, 2008
Stem cell researchers at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine are ready to enroll patients in another breakthrough study aimed at treating heart failure. They have received approval from the Food and Drug Administration for a study using a Helical Infusion catheter system to inject stem cells into the heart... <more>

Questioning the self cell, Nature Reports: Stem Cells, June 5, 2008
Dr. Joshua Hare, Chief, Cardiovascular Division of the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine, and Director, Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute, discusses a "surprising study that indicates that non-self mesenchymal stem cells might be just as therapeutic as one's own stem cells." <more>

ISCI EVENTS:

3rd Annual Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute Symposium on Friday, May 15, 2009, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, at the Retter Auditorium, Bascom Palmer Eye Institute
This symposium brings together leading experts to discuss novel data on the latest cutting-edge advancements in the field of stem cell research. <more>

UM Innovation Technology Showcase on December 2 - 3, 2008 at the Miami Four Seasons Hotel
UM Innovation is the home of technology advancement at the University of Miami, nurturing and integrating the University's research initiatives from initial concepts through development. Research by ISCI members can be found at the Showcase or online via the UM Innovation database. <more>