Regenesis of Epidermolysis Bullosa: From Cloning to Clinic

Date: 

Monday, May 1, 2017, 11:00am to 1:00pm

Location: 

Harvard Medical School, Tosteson Medical Education Center, Room 227, 260 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA

HSCI Skin Program Seminar

Guest speaker:
Jakub Tolar, MD, PhD
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  • Executive Vice Dean, University of Minnesota Medical School
  • Distinguished McKnight Professor, in the Department of Pediatrics, Blood and Marrow Transportation
  • Director, Stem Cell Institute
  • Edmund Wallace Tulloch and Anna Marie Tulloch Chair, Stem Cell Biology, Genetics and Genomics

Lecture begins at 11:00 a.m. followed by a light lunch.

Registration for this free event is available, on a first-come, first-served basis, by clicking here. Due to room limitations, we may not be able to accept walk-ins.

Abstract:
Dr. Tolar's research focuses on finding new ways of treating children with lethal diseases - cancer, inborn errors of metabolism, and devastating genetic disorders - using stem cell transplantation.  He is also looking for safe and more effective methods of repairing and using a patient's own cells in diseases such as epidermolysis bullosa, mucopolysaccharidosis type I (Hurler syndrome), Fanconi anemia, and dyskeratosis congenita.  Additional research interests include: reducing the negative effects of stem cell transplantation (such as using mesenchymal stromal cells for graft-versus-host disease), creation and use of induced pluripotent stem cells, gene therapy using gene addition (with viral vectors and transposons), or gene editing (iwth synthetic nucleases to repair genes).

https://www.stemcell.umn.edu/bio/stem-cell-ins-faculty-staff/jakub-tolar

TEDx talk link:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxb2Tnlsv88

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