Madison, Wis. – In an earlier column about the recent Stem Cell Symposium held on the Promega Campus, I extolled the exciting frontier of stem cell basic science that was on display; however, it was just as interesting to catch up with local stem cell researchers who attended the Symposium because I caught a glimpse of the current status of stem cell science in the Madison area.
For instance, I ran into Tim Kamp, an associate professor in the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Medicine’s Department of Physiology. Kamp, who along with Professor Jamie Thomson, recently developed a reliable way to derive human heart cells from embryonic stem cells (ESCs).