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Dr. William Lowry (left) and Carlos Galván (right) pictured in Lowry's UCLA lab.
Dr. Brigitte Gomperts, Dr. Siavash Kurdistani and William Lowry have been appointed associate directors of the UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center.
Microscope images showing brain tissue that has been damaged by white matter stroke (left) and then repaired by the new glial cell therapy (right). Myelin (seen in red), is a substance that protects the connections between neurons and is lost due to white matter stroke. As seen at right, the glial cell therapy (green) restores lost myelin and improves connections in the brain.
Clockwise from top left: Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Dr. S. Thomas Carmichael, Dr. Inma Cobos, William Lowry, Kathrin Plath and Bennett Novitch.
Image shows squamous cell skin cancer tumors with lactate production (a byproduct of glucose consumption) in purple. The tumor with lactate production blocked (left) grew at the same rate as the tumor with normal lactate production (right).
Untreated mouse skin showing no hair growth (left) compared to mouse skin treated with the drug UK5099 (right) showing hair growth.
Colorful staining indicates higher levels of a key sugar metabolism regulator in naïve (bottom row) versus primed (top row) human embryonic stem cells.
Cell colony with induced pluripotent stem cells stained in red using the TRA method