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Center and the Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine. This ambitious initiative began with a generous $5 million challenge grant from the Gates Frontiers Fund and quickly gathered momentum among friends and benefactors passionate about the future of eye care. Support from benefactors Lyda Hill, the Glendorn Foundation, LGA Foundation and several members of the Gates family is fueling research into the promise of stem cells for patients battling the disease.
According to Petrash, “With leadership gifts from the Gates Frontiers Fund and other visionaries in our community, we have a tremendous opportunity to take the next giant step toward making ocular stem cell therapy a reality for patients
with AMD.” Recruitment of the director of the Ocular Stem Cell and Regeneration Program will be made possible by these generous gifts. Additional resources already in place, including core laboratories and expertise in the Gates Center for Regenerative Medicine and the new Gates Biomanufacturing Facility, will strengthen our ability to attract top talent to our program. The clustering of state-of- the-art research laboratories, literally steps away from the UCHealth Eye Center and Gates Biomanufacturing Facility, will make the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus a fully integrated site for producing therapeutic stem cells and surgically delivering them into the eyes of patients.
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