The 6th Annual PCTC Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday & Wednesday, March 28-29, 2023, on the NIH campus in Bethesda, Maryland. Additional information will be sent out over the next few weeks and months regarding the 6th Annual PCTC Meeting.
Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium (PCBC) Cell Differentiation Data Available for Access
The Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium (PCBC), is a NHLBI sponsored effort to identify and characterize progenitor cell lineages, to direct the differentiation of stem and progenitor cells to desired cell fates, and to develop new strategies to address the unique challenges presented by the transplantation of these cells.
The Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium (PCBC) of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI) performed comprehensive experimental and genomic analyses of iPSC and hESC lines from different laboratories derived using a variety of reprogramming methods. Culture systems for the cell lines were harmonized. Resulting data are publicly available through Synapse.
Platform for Sharing and Accessing Available Protocols and Reagents
The PCBC Synapse platform, in addition to storing data is a resource for the aggregation and dissemination of protocols and reagents for the consortium.
Lehanna Sanders, a graduate student in the Hatzopoulos Hub Site 11 has initiated this PCBC Blog. Other team memebers include Nicole Stone (Srivastava Hub Site 15) and Kaytlyn Gerbin (Charles Murray's Lab - Morrisey Hub Site 14). To join the team, contact Ling Tang (ltang@epi.umaryland.edu) or Andrea Lefever (alefever@epi.umaryland.edu) for permission to post. For blog charter click here.
Jay Zhang, M.D., Ph.D., hosted a Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering (CVTE) Workshop and Symposium, on Monday, March 28, 2016, at the University of Alabama in Birmingham. Groups of videos address:
The Stanford Cardiovascular Institute, Wu Hub Site 04, hosted a Cardiovascular Tissue Engineering Symposium and Drug Discovery Conference on March 29, 2016. Experts in drug discovery discussed advances in research and technology.
To promote sharing of human and non-human genomic data and to provide appropriate protections for research involving human data, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) issued the Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy on August 27, 2014, in the NIH Guide Grants and Contracts (available at http://grants.nih.gov/grants/guide/notice-files/NOT-OD-14-124.html). The GDS Policy is also available at http://gds.nih.gov/03policy2.html.
To provide the PCBC with a mechanism to quickly award small grants to junior faculty (less than 5 years from their appointment to Assistant Professor), research associates, fellows, postdocs, and graduate students to support a well-defined specific aim. The aim should involve at least one of the following, with priority given to proposals that incorporate two:
