March 7, 2017
Drs. Chat Jayasuriya, PhD and Brett Owens, MD are award recipients of a one-year pilot project by the Brown Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR) to investigate the therapeutic potential of cartilage-derived stem cells for meniscus repair. This project titled “Meniscal Repair Using a Novel Subset of Cartilage-Derived Human Stem Cells will be mentored by Drs. Michael Ehrlich, MD and Qian Chen, PhD.
The two investigators were recently featured on Health Check: a segment of Rhode Island’s NBC Channel 10 News to discuss their exciting research and what it means for the future of regenerative cell-based medicine. Their story and interview can be found below.