Topics and Expertise: cell therapy

Chemicals used to turn skin cells into heart and brain cells

Thu Apr 28, 2016
Sheng Ding
Chris Goodfellow (Gladstone Institutes)

Sheng Ding, PhD (center), with Deepak Srivastava, MD (right), co-senior author of Science study, and Yadong Huang, MD, PhD (left), co-senior author Cell Stem Cell study.

In a major breakthrough, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, led by UCSF School of Pharmacy faculty member Sheng Ding, PhD, have transformed skin cells into heart and brain cells using combinations of chemicals.

Insulin-producing pancreatic cells created from human skin cells

Thu Jan 7, 2016
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, the Diabetes Center at UCSF, and the UCSF School of Pharmacy have converted human skin cells into fully functional pancreatic cells that produce insulin in response to changes in glucose levels.