With a generous gift from an anonymous donor, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine launched the Institute for Cell Engineering (ICE), fostering research that not long ago would have been marked as science fiction.

The Institute's scientists focus on selecting, modifying and reprogramming cells to answer fundamental questions in biology, answers that one day may lead to treatments or therapeutic transplants for conditions ranging from Parkinson's, ALS and diabetes to heart failure, stroke and spinal cord injury.

By design, the Institute provides an innovative, multidisciplinary environment to stimulate collaboration and accelerate scientific progress. Working in this model of 21st century science, those in the Institute's four main research programs and its affiliated projects are leading the effort to solve biological mysteries and to turn the promise of stem cells into reality.