Blood Diseases Program

HSCI publishes clinical trial results for therapeutic that amplifies blood stem cells

October 8, 2013

Starting with a discovery in zebrafish in 2007, Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) researchers have published initial results of a Phase Ib human clinical trial of a therapeutic that has the potential to improve the success of blood stem cell transplantation. This milestone, just nine short years after Harvard’s major commitment to stem cell biology, once again demonstrates the ability of HSCI investigators to carry a discovery from the lab bench to the clinic—fulfilling the promise on which the Institute was founded.... Read more about HSCI publishes clinical trial results for therapeutic that amplifies blood stem cells

Cross-country collaboration leads to new model of leukemia development

July 31, 2013

Eight years ago, two former Stanford University postdoctoral fellows, one of them still in California and the other at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) in Cambridge, began exchanging theories about why patients with leukemia stop producing healthy blood cells. What was it, they asked, that caused bone marrow to stop producing normal blood-producing cells?... Read more about Cross-country collaboration leads to new model of leukemia development