Mark Bothwell

Tietze Research Awards to two NDRG faculty members

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Both grants offered in 2026 by the John H. Tietze Foundation Trust have been awarded to NDRG faculty members.

Katie Liu received the Jaconette L. Tietze Young Scientist Award. The award will support her lab’s efforts to use patient-derived adipose-derived mesenchymal stem cells to improve repair of their injured nerves.

Mark Bothwell received the John H. Tietze Stem Cell Scientist Award. The award will allow gene-edited induced pluripotent stem cells to be produced to permit drug-controlled expression of the transcription factors EGFR2 and EGR3, which are master regulators of differentiation of myelinating Schwann cells from stem cells.

Both projects illustrate NDRG’s commitment to discover approaches to block degeneration and improve regeneration of peripheral nerves.

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ISCRM Innovation Pilot Award to Alec Smith

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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.

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Changho Chun awarded ISCRM Fellows predoctoral trainee position.

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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.

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