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David Brafman

Associate Professor, School of Biological and Health Systems Engineering

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The National Institutes of Health is awarding ASU a $2.1M grant to establish a doctoral regenerative medicine education program.

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ASU professor awarded $1.8 million in funding to research how changes in DNA can influence a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer’s disease.

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ASU engineers are integrating new imaging tools into processes to manufacture cells and body tissues needed to realize the high hopes for regenerative medicine

Photo of two men in lab coats with one holding up a dish. Caption: David Brafman (left) and Nick Brookhouser examining a plate used in an assay to characterize the identity of the hiPSC-derived neurons used in their research. Photographer: Jessica Hochreiter/ASU

David Brafman partnered with the Mayo Clinic’s Dr. Richard J. Caselli to use a stem-cell-based approach to identify causes of Alzheimer’s disease in people with various levels of risk based on variations of the apolipoprotein E (ApoE) gene.