A UC Davis Health research team has safely performed the world’s first spina bifida treatment combining fetal surgery with stem cells, according to results from Phase 1 of an ongoing clinical trial. These results have been published today in The Lancet.
The UC Davis School of Medicine is among the nation’s top-NIH funded medical schools, with about $233 in grants, in latest Blue Ridge Institute ranking
UC Davis has developed a platform to isolate the surface proteins of extracellular vesicles, or EVs. This research is a significant step toward building tools that transform EVs into next-generation drugs for cancer and other diseases.