Fetal Treatment Center Mobile App
The Fetal Treatment Center (FTC) mobile app, now available for download in the Apple app store and the Google Play store for Android devices.
News
Maternal Fetal Immunology Symposium
Experimental Obstetrics and Gynecology
Time Magazine: Scientists Are Developing New Ways to Treat Disease With Cells, Not Drugs
Tippi MacKenzie, MD, was featured in an article in Time Magazine discussing the Alpha-thalassemia Major (ATM) clinical trial.
UCSF Welcomes First In Utero Stem Cell Transplant Baby
NYT: Five Blood Transfusions, One Bone Marrow Transplant — All Before Birth
UCSF Pediatric Heart Center - Recent Publications
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Saving Stem Cells - San Francisco Business Times
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Fetal Stem Cell Transplants clinical trial featured in Science Magazine
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CIRM Awards Tippi MacKenzie, MD $12.1M to Treat Babies in the Womb Who Have Alpha Thalassemia Major
Pediatric Surgeon Tippi MacKenzie, MD was awarded $12.1 million by the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to treat babies in the womb suffering from alpha thalassemia major, a blood disorder that is only detected in the last few months of pregnancy and is almost uniformly fatal.
Fetal Surgery Stands To Advance From New Glues Inspired By Mussels
Pediatric surgeon Michael R. Harrison, MD and UC Berkeley engineer Phillip Messersmith, PhD are collaborating on an NIH-Funded research project to improve glues used in fetal surgery procedures, notably those used to treat twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome. Dr. Harrision, widely acknolwedged as the "father of fetal surgery", is Director Emeritus of the Fetal Treatment Center and leads the research of the Harrison Lab. The full story was recently reported in UC Berkeley News.