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USC Stem Cell selects inaugural Broad Clinical Research Fellows<\/h1>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n Cristy Lytal<\/span>\n \n August 20, 2015<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \n \n
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Clockwise from top left: Andre Luis de Castro Abreu, Victoria Forte, Kathy Schall and Rodrigo Mart\u00ednez Monedero (Photos by Cristy Lytal)<\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n \n \n \n\n<\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n\r\n\r\n\n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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This year, the Broad Clinical Research Fellowships are enabling physician-investigators to explore stem cell-based approaches related to four very different medical conditions: breast cancer, kidney disease, deafness and short bowel syndrome.
\nEach one-year fellowship provides $65,000 of salary support, $7,500 of supplies and a $1,500 meeting allowance to support full-time research related to stem cell biology and regenerative medicine, and is potentially renewable for a second year.
\nA clinician who received his urology training in Brazil with an additional clinical fellowship in robotic urologic surgery at USC, Andre Luis de Castro Abreu will focus on kidney regeneration. He will take a close look a newly discovered mechanism of kidney repair regulated by the organ\u2019s population of macula densa (MD) cells, which sense and communicate subtle changes in salt concentration, fluid flow and other metabolic factors. The USC laboratory of Janos Peti-Peterdi has developed a new imaging technique to observe this repair mechanism in living mouse kidneys. Abreu will use this imaging technique to confirm that this repair mechanism is also present in human kidneys, and to learn more about it.
\n\u201cThese studies are expected to result in potentially groundbreaking new discoveries, which may lead to the future development of new therapeutic approaches for the better treatment of cardiovascular and kidney diseases,\u201d said Abreu, who will be co-mentored by Inderbir Gill, professor and chair of the Catherine and Joseph Aresty Department of Urology at USC, and Peti-Peterdi, professor of physiology and biophysics. \u201cIt is an honor to be a Broad Clinical Research Fellow and to work with this team.\u201d
\nA third year medical oncology fellow, Victoria Forte will determine if cancer stem cells (CSCs) are present in the blood of non-metastatic breast cancer patients, both pre-treatment and at least one-year post-treatment. By detecting and analyzing these CSCs using highly-sensitive tools and techniques, Forte hopes to determine if CSCs can be targeted and eradicated post-treatment for newly diagnosed breast cancer to prevent eventual recurrence.
\nForte will also enroll in two courses offered through USC\u2019s Master of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine program, and an eight-week training course sponsored by the Southern California Clinical Translational Science Institute on clinical and translational research study design.
\n\u201cThis research fellowship will prepare me with the necessary training to become a breast cancer translational researcher who will focus on how to target and eradicate circulating cancer stem cells,\u201d said Forte, who will perform this project in the laboratory of Julie Lang at the USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center with additional mentorship from Min Yu in the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.
\nA practicing neuro-otologist who received his medical training in Spain, Rodrigo Mart\u00ednez Monedero will work to understand why deafness is permanent in humans and other mammals. In species such as birds, the inner ear\u2019s supporting cells can \u201cheal deafness\u201d by changing into and replenishing the damaged sensory cells responsible for hearing. Mart\u00ednez Monedero hypothesizes that mammals cannot replenish sensory cells because key genes in the supporting cells are either \u201cturned on or off\u201d through a process called epigenetic regulation. He hopes it will be possible to target specific epigenetic \u201con-off switches\u201d to regenerate the inner ear and treat deafness.
\n\u201cThis fellowship will allow me to continue my interest in stem cells and the problem of hair cells and neuronal regeneration, and will help in pursuing my goal of becoming an independent physician-scientist,\u201d said Mart\u00ednez Monedero, who will pursue the project in the laboratory of Neil Segil at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at USC.
\nA surgeon in training, Kathy Schall will work to help children and adults with short bowel syndrome (SBS) avoid surgery. SBS occurs when a patient can no longer absorb adequate nutrition after a bowel resection, which is the surgical removal of intestines, due to the shortened length. The surgical treatments for SBS \u2014 which are either intestinal elongation operations or small intestinal transplantation \u2014 can result in serious complications or even death. To decrease the need for these risky surgeries, Schall is exploring ways to encourage the stem and progenitor cells to regenerate and increase the surface area of the remaining intestines.
\nSchall will investigate the molecular signals \u2014 including the Wnt signaling pathway \u2014 that trigger intestinal regeneration in zebrafish. She will also locate and identify stem and progenitor cells within the intestines.
\n\u201cFuture therapies improving stem and progenitor cell adaptation could prevent the need for highly morbid medical and surgical interventions,\u201d said Schall, who will conduct her research in the laboratory of Tracy C. Grikscheit, associate professor of surgery in the Keck School Department of Surgery, at Children\u2019s Hospital Los Angeles. \u201cI am humbled and honored to be selected as one of the Broad Clinical Research Fellows.\u201d
\nIn addition to providing these opportunities at USC, The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation is supporting clinical fellows at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). The three universities\u2019 stem cell research centers were all established with support from Eli and Edythe Broad and the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM).
\nAs Andy McMahon, director of USC\u2019s stem cell research center, said, \u201cWe are grateful to the Broads for their commitment to training of physician-investigators, because of their highly important role in the translation of stem cell biology towards patient care.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n\n 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