PCTC Steering Committee Meeting: Thursday, April 26, 2018
Location: National Academy of Sciences (NAS) Building,
[Room: NAS Lecture Room] 
2101 Constitution Ave, NW, Washington, DC 20418

Yang and colleagues (Cardoso’s lab) report on how basal cells emerge during development  and how a subset of  these progenitors mediate the pathological alveolar remodeling after influenza injury.

Spatial-Temporal Lineage Restrictions of Embryonic p63+ Progenitors Establish Distinct Stem Cell Pools in Adult Airways

Y. Yang, P. Riccio, M. Schotsaert, M. Mori, J. Lu, D-K. Lee ,A. Garcıa-Sastre, J. Xu, and W.V. Cardoso. Developmental Cell 44, 752–761, March 26, 2018

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Drs. Matthew Brown, Ying Zhou, James Thomson, and colleagues have created a humanized mouse model using non-fetal human tissue sources, cryopreserved neonatal thymus and umbilical cord blood hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs). [22Mar2018 Stem Cell Reports]

Link to full article:

http://www.cell.com/stem-cell-reports/fulltext/S2213-6711(18)30102-4

PCTC Jump Start Award Program

Purpose:

To provide the PCTC with a mechanism to quickly award small grants to junior faculty (less than 5 years from their appointment to Assistant Professor), Research Associates, Graduate Students, Fellows and Postdocs to support a well-defined specific aim. The aim should involve at least one of the following, with priority given to proposals that incorporate two:

1.     The application of new technology to an existing translational research question