Spotlight on Regenerative Medicine

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The best healing is performed by our stem cells. Now the researchers recruit the body's own health workers to build up new healthy organs.    

Strategic research area in stem cells
Ming Wai Lau Centre for Reparative Medicine
Illustration Anders Kjellberg

Stem cells will build our health

The human body has an amazing ability to repair itself. Everyone knows that a skin cut quickly heals itself. The body can even handle quite large wounds with just a little help to hold together the edges of the wound, using a plaster or stitches.
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"We can make plasters for the heart"

Molly Stevens designs biomaterial that can repair the body.
Andrei Chagin. Foto: Ulf Sirborn

New mechanism of bone growth discovered

Andrei Chagin's research is about bone growth at a cellular level. 
Mansoureh Shahsavani, forskarstuderande, och Anna Falk, docent, institutionen för neurovetenskap. Foto: Stefan Zimmerman

"We have a model of the brain"

Anna Falk uses iPS cells to study diseases in the brain.
Cecilia Götherström

Unique stem cell brittle-bone study starts

Transplantation of stem cells into unborn babies with osteogenesis imperfecta. Dr Cecilia Götherström is leading this study.
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Trying to create recovery abilities

The salamander is a master at recreating parts of the body; lost limbs as well as parts of the heart and brain. András Simon wants to understand how it works.
Professor Sten Eirik Jacobsen. Foto: Bildmakarna

Normal and abnormal formation of blood cells

Stein Eirik Jacobsen is exploring the mechanisms and regulation of healthy blood formation and the causes of diseases of the blood, such as leukaemia.
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New tools to study the origin of embryonic stem cells

Researchers have identified cell surface markers specific for the very earliest stem cells in the human embryo. These cells are thought to possess great potential for replacing damaged tissue.

Stem-cell scarring aids recovery from spinal cord injury

According to a study published in Science (November, 2013) by Professor Jonas Frisén and colleagues at Karolinska Institutet, stem cell scarring aids recovery from spinal cord injury. Also visible in the film is doctoral students and coauthors Moa Stenudd and Hanna Sabelström.

News about regenerative medicine

Title Post date
Mapping bone-marrow microenvironment sheds fresh light on leukaemia 23 May 2019
Stem cells provide information about neuron resilience in ALS 09 May 2019
They are the 2019 Wallenberg Scholars 25 Mar 2019
Study on regenerative angiogenesis in humans shows encouraging results 20 Feb 2019
Workshop on Organoid & 3D Culturing November 2018 14 Nov 2018
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Regenerative Medicine
15 Apr 2019 by Katarina Sternudd.