News & Current Projects

Upcoming Events (2010 | 2009 | 2008) | Publications, Documents, and Sites of Interest | Conference Programs and Reports | Other Reports | Funding Opportunity Announcements

Upcoming Events

• June 16-19: Eighth ISSCR Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA [a website for this event is not yet available]
• March 21-25: ACS Biochemical Technology Division Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA

• November 30-December 4: 2009 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting & Exhibit, Boston, MA
• November 2-13: Third Marie Curie Cutting Edge Practical Training Course: Polymer Chemistry and Controlled Drug Delivery, Madrid, Spain
• September 13-18: Gordon Research Conference on Stem Cells & Cancer, Les Diablerets, Switzerland
• September 7-18: Second Marie Curie Cutting Edge Practical Training Course: Tissue Engineering, Stem Cells, and Biocompatibility Testing of Biomaterials, Aachen, Germany
• September 7-11: ESB 2009, the 22nd European Conference on Biomaterials, Lausanne, Switzerland
• September 7-11: ISO Technical Committee 150 Meeting, Kyoto, Japan [a website for this event is not yet available]
• August 31-September 3: Second TERMIS World Congress, Daejeon, Korea (in conjunction with the 2009 Seoul Stem Cell Symposium)
• August 16-20: Fall Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Division of Biochemical Technology, Washington, DC
• July 19-24: Gordon Research Conference on Biomaterials: Biocompatibility/Tissue Engineering, Holderness, NH
• July 8-11: International Society for Stem Cell Research Seventh Annual Meeting, Barcelona, Spain
• June 14-19: Gordon Research Conference on Tissue Repair & Regeneration, New London, NH
• May 25-June 5: First Marie Curie Cutting Edge Practical Training Course: Fabrication and Characterisation of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds, Braga, Minho, Portugal
• May 19-22: ASTM Committee F04, Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices Meeting at ASTM Committee Week, Vancouver, BC [a website for this event is not yet available]
• May 14-15: Third Annual RNAi World Congress, Boston, MA
• May 2-6: Fifteenth Annual Meeting of the International Society for Cellular Therapy (ICST), San Diego, CA
• April 22-29: Society for Biomaterials Annual Meeting and Exposition, San Antonio, TX [a website for this event is not yet available]
• April 21-26: Keystone Symposium on Stem Cell Niche Interactions, Whistler, BC, Canada
• April 13-17: 2009 Materials Research Society Spring Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• April 3-5: Thirty-fifth Annual Northeast Biomedical Engineering Conference, Cambridge, MA [a website for this event is not yet available]
• March 23-24: StemCONN 09, New Haven, CT
• March 22-26: Spring Meeting of the American Chemical Society, Division of Biochemical Technology, Salt Lake City, UT
• February 15-18: 14th International Symposium on Recent Advances in Drug Delivery Systems "Drug Carriers: Progress Beyond Delivery," Salt Lake City, UT
• January 26-28: Phacilitate Cell & Gene Therapy Forum 2009, Washington, DC
• January 20-22: Third Annual Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine World Congress, Palm Springs, CA

• December 13-17: The American Society for Cell Biology Forty-Eighth Annual Meeting, San Francisco, CA
• December 7-10: American Society for Matrix Biology 2008 Meeting, San Diego, CA
• December 6-10: TERMIS-NA Annual Conference and Expo, San Diego, CA
• December 7: NIAMS-Sponsored Pre-TERMIS-NA Special Interest Group Workshop, "Translational Models for Musculoskeletal Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine"
• Agenda for SIG Workshop (PDF, 268.5kb)
• December 6-9: American Society of Hematology Fiftieth Annual Meeting and Symposium, San Francisco, CA
• December 3: Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund Annual Stem Cell Research Symposium, Laurel, MD
• December 1-5: 2008 Materials Research Society Fall Meeting, Boston, MA
• November 20: National Academy of Sciences 2008 Symposium: Translation of Stem Cells into Clinical Stem Cell Therapeutics, Washington, DC
• November 18-21: ASTM Committee F04, Medical and Surgical Materials and Devices Meeting at ASTM Committee Week, Miami Beach, FL [a website for this event is not yet available]
• November 10-15: Second International Congress on Biohydrogels, Viareggio, Lucca, Italy [a website for this event is not yet available]
• November 6-8: TERMIS-AP Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan

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Publications, Documents, and Sites of Interest

Selected Recent Publications and Websites of Interest to the MATES IWG

• Danwei Huangfu, et al., "Induction of pluripotent stem cells from primary human fibroblasts with only Oct4 and Sox2," Nature Biotechnology, October 12, 2008 [Subscription required]
• Abstract
• Keisuke Okita, et al., "Generation of Mouse Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Without Viral Vectors," Science, October 9, 2008 (PDF, 202.4kb) [Subscription required]
• Rob Stein, "Scientists Report Advance in Stem Cell Alternative," Washington Post, September 26, 2008, A17
• Source article: Matthias Stadtfeld, et al., "Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Generated Without Viral Integration," Science, September 25, 2008 (PDF, 1mb) [Subscription required]
• Ernest T. Hawk, et al., "The Translational Research Working Group Developmental Pathways: Introduction and Overview," Clinical Cancer Research 2008:14(18), September 15, 5664-71
• Table of Contents (Note: this link is keyed to the current issue. Use the page's "back" arrow to find the table of contents for the September 15, 2008, issue (Volume 14, Issue 18) once it is no longer the current issue)
• Maureen Farrell, "Universities That Turn Research Into Revenue," Forbes, September 12, 2008
• Christine McConville, "UMass starts a top stem-cell database," Boston Herald, September 12, 2008
• Garry Emmons, "Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses," Harvard Business School "Working Knowledge" series, August 27, 2008
• "Stem cells 'created from teeth'," BBC News, August 22, 2008
• Stephanie Nano, "Scientists create stem cells for 10 disorders," Yahoo! News, August 8, 2008
• Bridgette McNeill, "Researchers grow human blood vessels in mice from adult progenitor cells," Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology News, July 18, 2008
• Regenerative Medicine, a supplement to Nature Insight 453:7193 (May 15, 2008), 301-351 (some articles require subscription)
• "Regenerative Medicine Seen as Means to Repair Wounded Warriors," by Gerry J. Gilmore, American Forces Press Service, April 17, 2008
• "FDA Hearings on Stem-Cell Drugs," by Alicia Mundy, The Wall Street Journal, April 10, 2008 [Subscription required]
• "Can Seaweed Mend a Broken Heart? New research indicates that an alginate-based biomaterial injected into heart attack victims may stave off further damage," by Cynthia Graber, Scientific American, April 7, 2008
• "Medicine's Cutting Edge: Re-Growing Organs -- The Future Is Here: Regenerative Powder, Ink Jet Heart Cells And Custom-Made Body Parts," by Wyatt Andrews, CBS News Sunday Morning, March 23, 2008
• "Great Expectations: Private Sector Activity in Tissue Engineering, Regenerative Medicine, and Stem Cell Therapeutics," by Michael J. Lysaght, Ana Jaklenec, and Elizabeth Deweerd, Tissue Engineering Part A 14:2 (February 2008), 305-315 [Subscription required]
• "The Meaning of Translational Research and Why It Matters," by Steven H. Woolf, JAMA 299:2 (January 9/16 2008), 211-213:
• Full text [Subscription required]
• Extract
• Stem Cell Technique Wins U.S. Funding, Fuels Debate, by Tom Randall, Bloomberg.com, January 8, 2008
• A Stem Cell Victory, by Bernadine Healy, U.S. News & World Report, January 2, 2008
• Synthetic DNA on the Brink of Yielding New Life Forms, by Rick Weiss, Washington Post, Monday, December 17, 2007, A1
• Articles of interest from Tissue Engineering, 13:12 (December 2007):
• Peter C. Johnson, Antonios G. Mikos, John P. Fisher, and John A. Jansen, "Strategic Directions in Tissue Engineering" (PDF, 182kb)
• Kiki B. Hellman and Robert M. Nerem, "Advancing Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine [Editorial]" (PDF, 43.4kb)

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Conference Programs and Reports

• Program and Abstract Book for the Eleventh U.S.-Japan Cellular and Gene Therapy Conference on Tissue Engineering, February 28, 2008, Bethesda, MD (PDF, 323.2kb)
• Program Book for the Society for Biological Engineering First International Conference on Stem Cell Engineering: "From Benchtop to Bioprocess," Coronado Island, CA, January 20-23, 2008 (PDF, 1.6mb)
• "ASTM Subcommittee on Cell Signaling (F04.46)," a PowerPoint summary of the meeting of ASTM Subcommittee F04.46 on Standards for Cell Signaling, Norfolk VA, May 24, 2007, by Anne L. Plant, Ph.D., Leader, Cell and Tissue Measurements Group, Biochemical Science Division, National Institute of Standards and Technology. (PPT, 1.3mb)
• "What lies at the interface of regenerative medicine and developmental biology?" by Donald E. Ingber and Michael Levin. Review of the recent Keystone Symposium Tissue Engineering and Developmental Biology. Development 134, 2541-2547, 2007. (PDF, 199.7kb)
• Workshop on Stem Cell Research For Regenerative Medicine And Tissue Engineering, February 1-2, 2007, National Science Foundation, Alexandria, VA. Includes Proceedings and Agenda
• European Science Foundation. 2005. Nanomedicine: An ESF - European Medical Research Councils (EMRC) Forward Look Report, prepared by Ruth Duncan, et al. (PDF, 3.1mb)
• Huesing, B., B. Buerhlen, and S. Gaisser. 2003. Human tissue engineered products: Today's markets and future prospects. Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research. (PDF)
• Zucker, H., et al., 2020: A New Vision - A Future for Regenerative Medicine (Department of Health and Human Services, September 2005) (also available in PDF)
• "Scientists call for more liberal regulations for stem cell research in Germany," a press release summarizing the highlights of the international workshop, Germany and Europe - Partnership in Regenerative Medicine: Strategies for Advancing Tissue Science and Engineering held on December 2, 2005 in Berlin, sponsored by the German Society for Regenerative Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft f¸r Regenerative Medizin e.V., GRM)
• Cassman, M., et al., WTEC Panel on Systems Biology, Final Report (Baltimore, MD: WTEC, Inc., October 2005)
• Anne L. Plant and Emanuel Horowitz, Proceedings of the Symposium on Metrology and Standards for Cell Signaling: Impact on Tissue Engineering, National Institute for Standards and Technology, October 14-15, 2003. Published in Tissue Engineering 11: 7-8 (July 2005), 985-990. (registration required)
• Commercialisation of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, London, UK, November 18-19, 2004
• Interagency Workshop on Research at the Interface of the Life Sciences and Physical Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, May 10, 2004
• The Emergence of Tissue Engineering as a Research Field, Arlington, Virginia, October 14, 2003
• NIST/ASTM Symposium on Metrology and Standards for Cell Signaling: Impact on Tissue Engineering, Gaithersburg, Maryland, October 14-15, 2003
• Symposium on Catalyzing Team Science, Bethesda, Maryland, June 23-24, 2003
• WTEC Workshop on Assessment of European, Japanese, and U.S. Research and Development in Biosensing, Bethesda, Maryland, May 13, 2003
• Final Report, BECON 2002 Symposium: Sensors in Biological Research and Medicine, June 24-25, 2002 (PDF)
• Final Report, BECON 2001 Symposium: Reparative Medicine: Growing Tissues and Organs, Bethesda, Maryland, June 25-26, 2001 (PDF)
• WTEC Study on Tissue Engineering Research:
• Proceedings of the U.S. Review Workshop, June 5-6, 2000
• McIntyre, L.V., et al., WTEC Panel Report on Tissue Engineering Research (Baltimore, MD: WTEC, Inc., January 2002)

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Other Reports

• Executive Order 13435: Expanding Approved Stem Cell Lines in Ethically Responsible Ways (full text), June 20, 2007
• 2007 Amendments to the National Academies' Guidelines for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, National Academies Press, 2007
• FDA Report on Challenge and Opportunity on the Critical Path to New Medical Products, March 2004

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Funding Opportunity Announcements

Date Posted: September 9, 2008
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: RFA-RM-08-029
Title: Roadmap Transformative R01 Program (R01)
Dates: Opening Date: December 29, 2008; Letters of Intent Receipt Date(s): December 29, 2008; Application Due Date: January 29, 2009; Peer Review Date: May/June 2009; Council Review Date: August 2009; Earliest Anticipated Start Date: September 1, 2009

Date Posted: July 7, 2008
Office: National Science Foundation
Opportunity Number: PD-04-1144
Title: Biomolecular Systems Cluster (Modification to Previous Grants Notice)
Closing Date: Current Closing Date for Applications: January 12, 2009. Full Proposal Target Date: January 12, 2008 and annually thereafter

Date Posted: April 17, 2008
Office: National Science Foundation
Opportunity Number: PD-08-1491
Title: Biotechnology, Biochemical, and Biomass Engineering
Closing Date: September 15, 2008. Submission window dates: August 15, 2008-September 15, 2008, annually thereafter from February 1-March 1

Date Posted: March 21, 2008
Office: National Science Foundation
Opportunity Number: PD-08-5345
Title: Biomedical Engineering (Modification to Previous Grants Notice)
Closing Date: September 15, 2008. Submission window dates: August 15-September 15, 2008, annually thereafter from February 1-March 1

Date Posted: March 3, 2008
Office: National Science Foundation
Opportunity Number: PD-06-7623
Title: Biomaterials (Modification to Previous Grants Notice)
Closing Date: November 7, 2008 (Full Proposal Window: September 15, 2008-November 7, 2008)

Date Posted: January 30, 2008
Office: National Science Foundation
Opportunity Number: PD-04-1112
Title: Genes and Genome Systems (Modification to Previous Grants Notice)
Closing Date: January 12 and July 12 annually through July 12, 2009

Date Posted: September 12, 2007
Office: Air Force Office of Scientific Research
Opportunity Number: AFOSR-BAA-2007-1
Title: Broad Agency Announcement: Research Interests of the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (Modification to Previous Grants Notice)
Closing Date: Open-ended until revised

Date Posted: January 18, 2007
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PA-07-303
Title: Novel Approaches To Enhance Animal Stem Cell Research (R01)
Closing Date: Multiple; refer to full announcement (application closing date: January 2, 2010; archive date: February 1, 2010)

Date Posted: January 18, 2007
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PA-07-304
Title: Novel Approaches To Enhance Animal Stem Cell Research (R21)
Closing Date: Multiple; refer to full announcement (archive date: February 2, 2010)

Date Posted: January 8, 2007
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PA-07-279
Title: Bioengineering Research Grants (BRG) (R01)
Closing Date: Multiple; refer to full announcement (archive date: October 2, 2009)

Date Posted: November 21, 2006
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PA-07-056
Title: Pancreatic Development and Regeneration: Toward Cellular Therapies for Diabetes (R01)
Closing Date: Multiple; refer to full announcement (archive date: April 5, 2009)

Date Posted: November 21, 2006
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PA-07-054
Title: Development of Assays for high Throughput Drug Screening (R01)
Closing Date: Multiple; refer to full announcement (archive date: April 5, 2009)

Date Posted: November 21, 2006
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PA-07-052
Title: Development of Disease Biomarkers (R01)
Closing Date: Multiple; refer to full announcement (archive date: April 5, 2009)

Date Posted: August 31, 2006 (modification of announcement originally posted November 17, 2004)
Office: United States Air Force Research Laboratory
Opportunity Number: BAA-05-02-HE
Title: Advances in Biotechnology and the Biosciences for Warfighter Performance and Protection
Closing Date: Multiple; refer to full announcement (archive date: October 31, 2009)

Date Posted: August 29, 2006
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PA-06-538
Title: Immunology of Biofilms (R21)
Closing Date: July 2, 2009

Date Posted: August 2, 2006
Office: National Institutes of Health
Opportunity Number: PAR-06-504
Title: Enabling Technologies for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine (R01)
Closing Date: Multiple; refer to full announcement (archive date: June 20, 2009)

Date Posted: May , 2006
Office: National Science Foundation
Opportunity Number: 06-566
Title: Biomedical Engineering, Research to Aid Persons with Disabilities, and Biophotonics Programs
Closing Date: Proposals accepted annually between August 15-September 15 and February 1-March 1. No deadlines for Undergraduate Design Project proposals.

Date Posted: March 10, 2006
Office: National Institutes of Health
Funding Opportunity Number: PA-06-231
Title: Developmental Biology and Regeneration of the Liver (R01)
Closing Date: Multiple; refer to full announcement (archive date: April 1, 2009)

Date Posted: March 10, 2006
Office: National Institutes of Health
Funding Opportunity Number: PA-06-232
Title: Developmental Biology and Regeneration of the Liver (R21)
Closing Date: Multiple; refer to full announcement (archive date: April 1, 2009)

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