UC Davis has established a new Center for Pediatric Stem/Progenitor Cell Translational Research with a $6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health. The multidisciplinary partnership unifies investigators and research programs across basic science, translational and medical disciplines to advance cellular therapies for the treatment of childhood diseases.
Alice F. Tarantal, professor of pediatrics at UC Davis School of Medicine and at the California National Primate Research Center, is director of the new center and principal investigator of the grant. As part of the grant, she will develop new methods to:
