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Sanford-Burnham’s Stem Cells and Regenerative Biology Program and Stem Cell Research Center are founded to help maintain the momentum of stem cell science as restrictions on federal-funded stem cell research tighten.
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California Institute For Regenerative Medicine Proposition 71 is passed in California, creating the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine and providing new funding for stem cell research in the state.
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The National Institutes of Health selects Sanford-Burnham as an exploratory center for human embryonic stem cell research and awards it $3 million to fund research, infrastructure, and training.
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Dr. Fred Levine and colleagues show that endocrine progenitor stem cells exist in the adult human pancreas, and that these stem cells can be transformed into insulin-producing cells—a major step toward developing new therapies for the treatment of diabetes.
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Sanford-Burnham, the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, The Scripps Research Institute, and the University of California, San Diego form the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine.
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The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine awards Sanford-Burnham $6 million to fund stem cell research projects.
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Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine Philanthropist T. Denny Sanford donates $30 Million to the San Diego Consortium for Regenerative Medicine and it is renamed the Sanford Consortium for Regenerative Medicine in his honor.
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Institute Welcomes Robert Wechsler-ReyaSanford-Burnham recruits Dr. Robert Wechsler-Reya to the Institute’s faculty. Dr. Wechsler-Reya’s team discovered cancer stem cells in animal models of medulloblastoma, an aggressive childhood brain tumor. He is the first researcher to receive a Leadership Award from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine.
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How to Make New Neurons Dr. Stuart Lipton, director of the Del E. Webb Neuroscience, Aging, and Stem Cell Research Center, and collaborators were among the first to reprogram skin cells directly into functioning neurons, an achievement that could someday help patients with Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders.
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Sanford-Burnham’s Stem Cell Research Center opens a new core facility dedicated to generating and storing a collection of induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) derived from individual patients with a variety of diseases.
