InStem ties up with Cambridge University

Updated on: Wednesday, September 14, 2011

The Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (InStem) will sign a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Cambridge for a collaborative initiative in therapeutics and translational sciences.

The MoU will be signed on Wednesday at the National Centre for Biological Sciences, where InStem is located. The initiative will be led by Ashok Venkitaraman, Director, Cancer Cell Unit of the U.K. Medical Research Council, who is concurrently the Ursula Zoellner Professor of Cancer Research of Cambridge University.

The MoU will be signed between InStem represented by Jyotsna Dhawan, Dean, InStem, and Cambridge University, represented by its Vice Chancellor, Leszek Borysiewicz, who is the former head of the U.K. Medical Research Council. A press release from NCBS said the initiative could be the “beginning for what can turn out to be a major approach to tackle diseases, and taking research from lab-side (research laboratories) to bench-side (hospitals, clinics).”

InStem ties up with Cambridge University

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