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Annual UCI Stem Cell Symposium

2025 (Feb 11-12 2025)

Mike Johnson’s Seed Funding Fuels Researchers’ Quest to
Heal Spinal Injuries

About Us

Today’s UC Irvine Stem Cell Research Center is a dynamic center encompassing a diverse array of interdisciplinary investigators that span the schools of Medicine, Biological Sciences, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Engineering, Arts, and the Program in Public Health. Our state-of-the-art, LEED Platinum certified research and clinical building houses 25 of our 65 center faculty members.    

Center faculty have obtained more than $275 million dollars in grant and foundation funds, including over $165 million dollars from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine. Our research programs include two National Institutes of Health (NIH)-sponsored T32 training grants, NIH R25 training program, 2 CIRM training grants supporting trainees from undergraduate through to postdoctoral and clinical fellows, a NIAMS P30 skin biology research center grant, state-of-the-art shared equipment and research services cores, community lecture series, an annual stem cell science symposium, and numerous seminar series.

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News

Quinton Smith, PhD, is one of the recipients of the BMES Cellular and Molecular Bioengineering (CMBE) Rising Star Awards for 2025

The CMBE Rising Star Award recognizes a BMES-CMBE SIG member who is at their early independent career stage and has made an outstanding impact on the field of cellular and molecular bioengineering.

Tayloria Adams, PhD, wins Woman of Excellence Award
We are proud to announce that Dr. Tayloria N.G. Adams of the Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering and the Sue & Bill Gross Stem Cell Research Center has won the Woman of Excellence Award from the Faculty Women of Color in the Academy (FWCA) for 2024! The award was presented at the annual FWCA conference on April 13th in Arlington, VA.
Dr. Leigh Turner awarded grant to study ethics of using biocomputing to build neural networks
As part of a collaborative project with USC and other faculty at UCI, Dr. Leigh Turner has been awarded a 2 million dollar grant from National Science Foundation to use biocomputing and stem cells to build neural networks to one day combat neurodegenerative diseases.

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Events

Community lectures, special events and opportunities to engage. Find details for future events here.

14 Jan.

Stem Cells: A New Lens on Environmental Health Research

Nicole Sparks, PhD & Madeline VeraColon


17 Jan.

Epithelial Epigenetics: Chromatin at the Nexus of Epithelial Development, Differentiation, and Disease
Brian Capell, MD, PhD, UPenn

11 Feb.

Fueling Medical Innovation: The FDA’s Vision for Cellular Therapies
Peter Marks, MD, PhD from CBER of the FDA, Featured Community Lecture.

12 Feb.

SCRC 12th Annual Stem Cell Science Symposium
Time: 9:00AM – 6:00PM || Location: Gross Hall, 4001 Thorp Conference Center