University Professor and Director

Helen M. Blau , PhD

Helen M. Blau

Korrespondierendes Mitglied der mathematisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Klasse im Ausland seit 2024

  • Stanford University School of Medicine

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Orcid-ID:

0000-0001-6503-5480

Forschungsbereiche:

  • Biologie
  • Stammzellenforschung
  • Molekularbiologie
  • Muscle Biology

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CV/Website

Publikationen:

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Ausgewählte Mitgliedschaften:

  • National Academy of Sciences
  • National Academy of Medicine/Institute of Medicine
  • American Philosophical Society
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • American Institute for Medical & Biological Engineering
  • Pontifical Academy of Sciences
  • American Philosophical Society
  • National Academy of Inventors

Ausgewählte Preise und Auszeichnungen:

  • MERIT Award, National Institutes of Health
  • McKnight Technological Innovations for Neuroscience Award
  • Ellison Medical Foundation, Senior Scholar Award
  • NIH Director’s Transformative Research Award
  • FASEB Excellence in Science Award

Ausgewählte Publikationen:

  • Palla AR, Ravichandran M, Wang YX, Alexandrova L, Yang AV, Kraft P, Holbrook CA, Schürch CM, Ho ATV, Blau HM. Inhibition of prostaglandin-degrading enzyme 15-PGDH rejuvenates aged muscle mass and strength. Science. 2021 Jan 29;371(6528). doi: 10.1126/science.abc8059. Epub 2020 Dec 10. PubMed PMID: 33303683; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC7938328.
  • Blau HM, Baltimore D. Differentiation requires continuous regulation. J Cell Biol. 1991 Mar;112(5):781-3. doi: 10.1083/jcb.112.5.781. Review. PubMed PMID: 1999456; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2288865.
  • Blau HM, Pavlath GK, Hardeman EC, Chiu CP, Silberstein L, Webster SG, Miller SC, Webster C. Plasticity of the differentiated state. Science. 1985 Nov 15;230(4727):758-66. doi: 10.1126/science.2414846. PMID: 2414846
  • Gilbert PM, Havenstrite KL, Magnusson KE, Sacco A, Leonardi NA, Kraft P, Nguyen NK, Thrun S, Lutolf MP, Blau HM. Substrate elasticity regulates skeletal muscle stem cell self-renewal in culture. Science. 2010 Aug 27;329(5995):1078-81. doi: 10.1126/science.1191035. Epub 2010 Jul 15. PMID: 20647425
  • Bakooshli MA, Wang YX, Monti E, Su S, Kraft P, Nalbandian M, Alexandrova L, Wheeler JR, Vogel H, Blau HM. Regeneration of neuromuscular synapses after acute and chronic denervation by inhibiting the gerozyme 15-prostaglandin dehydrogenase. Sci Transl Med. 2023 Oct 11;15(717):eadg1485. doi: 10.1126/scitranslmed.adg1485. Epub 2023 Oct 11. PubMed PMID: 37820010; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC10763629.