Mahendra Rao Director of Intramural Center for Regenerative Medicine
By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 25 August 2011, 17:48 IST
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Mahendra Rao Director of Intramural Center for Regenerative Medicine
Fremont: National Institutes of Health Director Francis S. Collins has announced Mahendra S. Rao as the director for the new NIH Intramural Center for Regenerative Medicine (NIH-CRM). The NIH-CRM is an initiative to create a world-class center of excellence in stem cell technology on campus, including induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSC), which can have applications in many systems and organs of the body. This is an initiative of the NIH Common Fund and will be administered by NIAMS. In addition to the NIH-CRM director position, Rao will hold a joint research appointment in NIAMS and NINDS. He is internationally recognized for his research involving human embryonic stem cells and other somatic stem cells. He has worked in the stem cell field for more than 20 years, with stints in academia, government and regulatory affairs and industry. He completed his M.D. from Bombay University in India and his Ph.D. in developmental neurobiology from California Institute of Technology. Following postdoctoral training at Case Western Reserve University, he established his research laboratory in neural development at the University of Utah. Later he the National Institute on Aging as chief of the neuroscience section, where he studied neural progenitor cells and continued to explore his longstanding interest in their clinical potential.

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