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.