All Posts: Center for Cell Reprogramming

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GUMC Stories

Conditional Reprogramming: A Novel Way to Study the Novel Coronavirus

(July 8, 2020) — Even during the early days of the pandemic, it was apparent that some patients with COVID-19 develop multisystem problems in addition to respiratory. …

July 9, 2020

News Release

Scientists Describe Lab Technique With Potential To Change Medicine and Research

Researchers who developed and tested a revolutionary laboratory technique that allows for the endless growth of normal and diseased cells in a laboratory are publicly sharing how…

January 20, 2017

News Release

Mechanistic Insight into Immortal Cells Could Speed Clinical Use

WASHINGTON — The mechanistic understanding of the relatively new technique for growing cells in culture indefinitely - known as conditional reprogramming - has been…

February 23, 2015

News Release

Center for Cellular Reprogramming Created To Drive Laboratory Breakthrough

Georgetown University Medical Center announces the launch of the Center for Cellular Reprogramming, a global center of excellence whose mission is to promote intra- and…

December 12, 2013

GUMC Stories

Schlegel Honored for Research and Teaching with New University Award

Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, chair of the department of pathology and professor of oncology at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, received the President’s Award for…

October 17, 2013

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HPV News Provides a Shot in the Arm

(July 10, 2013) — June 19 was a very good day for Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, a pathologist at Georgetown University Medical Center who is known worldwide as a co-inventor of…

July 10, 2013

GUMC Stories

New Center Serves as Research Hub

(March 20, 2013) — It quickly became known as the “Georgetown method.” A revolutionary way of growing both tumor and normal cells in order to one day truly personalize…

March 20, 2013