Diane Krause (left), of laboratory medicine, cell biology, and pathology, discusses lab results with Stephanie Massaro, a clinician in the Department of Pediatrics.
Eight years ago, Dr. Diane Krause was one of only two scientists at the Yale School of Medicine whose work was specifically focused on stem cells. Today, more than 70 Yale faculty members are involved in some form of stem cell research, which since 2007 has been supported at Yale by more than $230 million in state and federal grants and funding foundations. Yale stem cell researchers have published 472 papers exploring a host of medical and scientific questions, from the origins of leukemia to the molecular basis of hair growth. "This field has grown more quickly than any of us could have envisioned," said Krause, professor of laboratory medicine, cell biology, and pathology, and since 2006 associate director of the Yale Stem Cell Center. On Wednesday April 3, Krause will join more than 430 registrants and Governor Dannel Malloy in celebrating Connecticut's successful discoveries at the 2013 StemConn scientific symposium at the Omni Hotel in New Haven. Held every other year, the gathering will be the largest since the conference began in 2007 - an outgrowth of the establishment in 2005 of the Connecticut Stem Cell Research program by the state legislature. The success of stem cell research at Yale, as well as the University of Connecticut and Wesleyan University, is directly attributable to the program's $100 million in grants promised to state researchers over 10 years.
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