NIH Grant

Congratulations to Dr. Makoto Nagano (McGillU) on the approval of his NIH R01 grant application.

• Project title: “Spermatogonial stem cell transplantation and culture in patients”,
• Investigators: K. Orwig (U. Pittsburgh) as NPA and Makoto Nagano as co-PI 
• Amount: 5 years, $2,494,748US requested
• This study will develop technologies to identify and isolate human male germline stem cells and then to propagate them in vitro. This project also includes a clinical trial component to transplant the stem cells, which were harvested from childhood cancer patients and cryopreserved for more than a decade, back into the cancer survivors, in order for them to become able to conceive genetic children.