Items Tagged ‘regenerative medicine research’
February 15, 2022
Advancing a new era of regenerative medicine
Allegorically speaking, if Mayo Clinic were a garden and regenerative technologies were fruits and vegetables, William Faubion Jr., M.D., sees himself as a gardener tending to the teams responsible for these new healing therapies. Dr. Faubion, who is the newly named associate medical director for Mayo Clinic’s Center for Regenerative Medicine, wants to advance discoveries […]
Tags: Allan Dietz, biomedical engineering, CAR-T cell therapy, Center for Regenerative Medicine, Crohn's disease, Eric Dozois, gastroenterology, immune system, inflammatory bowel disease, perianal fistula, regenerative medicine research, surgery
January 18, 2022
Identifying best candidates with avascular necrosis for regenerative alternative to hip replacement
A regenerative alternative to total hip replacement delayed the need for artificial implants by at least seven years for 35% of patients who had surgery to treat avascular necrosis. That condition occurs when blood flow to the hip joint known as the femoral head is constricted, causing bone cells to die. This Mayo Clinic research, […]
Tags: biotherapeutics, Center for Regenerative Medicine, hip decompression surgery, hip replacement, orthopedics, Rafael Sierra, regenerative medicine research