Date:
Location:
HSCI Skin Program Seminar
Guest speaker:
Jakub Tolar, MD, PhD
- 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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