Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine
Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine is established to further accelerate research in stem cell biology, biomedical engineering, biotechnology, and regenerative medicine at Karolinska Institutet.
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Simon Elsässer’s new publication in Nature Communications
Simon Elsässer’s new publication in Nature Communications
Pluripotent stem cells are formed at the earliest stage of organismal life and give rise to all different cell lineages that eventually make up the human body. Because of their unique potential to generate any other cell type, pluripotent stem cells bear great value for regenerative medicine. In their latest study published in Nature Communications, Simon Elsässer’s team elucidated how pluripotent stem cells keep mobile DNA elements, omnipresent in animal genomes, in check to avoid genome instability at this crucial stage of development.
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KI researchers' excitement for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
KI researchers' excitement for the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020
Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2020 for discovering one of gene technology’s sharpest tools: the CRISPR/Cas9 genetic scissors. This technology is revolutionary as it provides a quick and precise method in genome editing. Fredrik Lanner and Zongli Zheng are some of the KI researchers who use this technology in their research. Let's learn more about this powerful award-winning technology.
Simon Elsässer has been awarded the 2020 grant from IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse
Simon Elsässer has been awarded the 2020 grant from IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse
Simon Elsässer is one of the nineteen winners in the tough competition for this year's grant from IngaBritt och Arne Lundbergs Forskningsstiftelse, which purpose is to promote scientific medical research in the areas of cancer, renal disease and orthopaedics. Simon’s team is researching the function of small proteins (microproteins) and their interactions with larger proteins. They envision that the study of microproteins will complete the complex picture of our proteome in health and disease, and provide new avenues for treatment.
Ning Xu Landén is this year’s winner of the LEO Foundation Award in Region EMEA
Ning Xu Landén is this year’s winner of the LEO Foundation Award in Region EMEA
The LEO Foundation Award aims to advance the understanding and treatment of skin diseases. It is given to outstanding young scientists from around the world, and this year Ning Xu Landén receives the award for her significant contribution to unravel the roles of regulatory RNAs in wound healing.
KI, St. Erik Eye Hospital and Novo Nordisk collaborate to find a cure for age-related macular degeneration
KI, St. Erik Eye Hospital and Novo Nordisk collaborate to find a cure for age-related macular degeneration
Dr Fredrik Lanner and Prof Anders Kvanta, together with their research teams at KI and St. Erik Eye Hospital have entered a collaboration with Novo Nordisk A/S to develop a new treatment for age-related macular degeneration. The aim is to develop a completely new cell therapy for this common but currently incurable eye disease.
Simon Elsässer has been awarded the ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2020
Simon Elsässer has been awarded the ERC Proof of Concept Grant 2020
Simon Elsässer is one of the fifty-five grantees of the European Research Council (ERC) Proof of Concept funding to explore the commercial or societal potential of his research project "Highly multiplexed, quantitative epigenetic profiling".
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco has been awarded the Eric K. Fernström prize 2020
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco has been awarded the Eric K. Fernström prize 2020
Gonçalo Castelo-Branco receives the 2020 Eric K. Fernström prize for his significant research in the oligodendrocyte/myelin field and multiple sclerosis. The Eric K Fernström Foundation was formed in 1978 to promote scientific and medical research. It makes annual award of prizes to promising young medical researchers who are active in Sweden.
Highlights
Inauguration of MWLC
Inauguration of MWLC
On 7 October 2016, MWLC was inaugurated in Hong Kong Science Park. The officiating party included representatives of the Chinese and Hong Kong SAR governments, the Consul General of Sweden in Hong Kong and Macao, senior management of KI and Steering Group and management team of MWLC.
Visit of HRH Prince Carl Philip
Visit of HRH Prince Carl Philip
HRH Prince Carl Philip of Sweden visited MWLC on 7 December as part of an official visit to Hong Kong. Our scientists showed the Prince and the Consul General Helena Storm to our lab facilities and experiments.
Visit of the President and Chair of the Board
Visit of the President and Chair of the Board
President Ole Petter Ottersen and Chair of the Board of Karolinska Institutet Mikael Odenberg met with MWLC staff for the very first time on 19 December 2018. Our PIs presented ongoing research and demonstrated some of the techniques used in the lab.
Shaping the future of MWLC
Shaping the future of MWLC
MWLC together with the Consulate General of Sweden organized the reception "Moving forward together: Shaping the future of Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine" for representatives from the academia, industry and governmental bodies to learn more about MWLC and our ongoing activities.