ISCI NEWS:

Stem Cell Therapies for Hearts Inching Closer to Wide Use, CNN.com, December 18, 2009
(CNN) -- If you've just had your first heart attack, doctors may one day be able to reverse the damage done with stem cell therapy. "We're looking on the time frame here of five years, in the best-case scenario, to have approved cardiac stem cell therapies," said Dr. Joshua Hare, director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the University of Miami's... <more>

Key Stem Cell Research Under Way... UM and Biohart May have Breakthroughs, South Florida Business Journal, October 26, 2009
Clinical trials by the University of Miami and Sunrise-based Bioheart (OTCBB: BHRT) are among a wave of studies searching for ways to repair damaged hearts using stem cells. Numerous animal tests have shown stem cells can transform into new heart muscle to repair tears after a heart attack or partially replace scar tissue from old cardiac episodes. According to Dr. Josh Hare, director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the Miller School... <more>

UM Researchers Demonstrate How Stem Cell Line Regenerates New Cardiac Cells, August 4, 2009
Under the leadership of Joshua M. Hare, M.D., director of the Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute at the Miller School, a team of physician-scientists has demonstrated how allogeneic mesenchymal stem cells restore cardiac function in chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy... <more>

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>

ISCI EVENTS:

4th Annual Interdisciplinary Stem Cell Institute Symposium on Friday, May 14, 2010, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, at the University of Miami Hospital Seminar Center
This symposium brings together leading experts to discuss novel data on the latest cutting-edge advancements in the field of stem cell research. Discussions from prominent keynote speakers including Bernhard Kuhn, M.D., Children’s Hospital, Boston (Stimulating Heart Muscle Cell Proliferation and Cardiac Regeneration), George Daley, M.D., Ph.D., Children's Hospital... <more>

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 brought 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>