Friday, April 22, 2016

Record donation brings the KI Center for Regenerative Medicine – New Technology

A record donation from Hong Kong to give new impetus to the KI research on stem cells and regenerative medicine for Macchiarini affair. “It will be an amazing, bubbling hub,” said the coordinator of the new center.

The businessman Ming Wai Lau’s donation is one of the largest Karolinska Institute, Solna ever received ever.

Hong Kong Chinese, whose father is on the 65th place on the Forbes list of world’s billionaires in 2016, wrote in January last year a donation contract with KI’s former Vice Chancellor Anders Hamsten, now resigned after Macchiarini scandal.

According to the agreement bestows Ming Wai Lau 50 million US dollars, or about SEK 405 million, to KI for research on stem cells – or how laws broken or diseased parts of the body (called regenerative medicine) to distribute over five years.

the sum means almost doubling the NIER’s latest funding in the field. The years 2010-2015 were KI 248 million, partly from the state and from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation. For 2016 to date 30 million, but more may come in the research bill will during the year.

The donation will go to a new center for research on regenerative medicine in Stockholm and Hong Kong, called Ming Wai Lau Center for regenerative Medicine.

– as far as I know, the first time a Swedish state university establishes itself abroad, says Agneta Wallin Levinovitz, the center’s coordinator.

KI hired in Hong Kong Science Park and managers of four research groups are now being recruited from various medical universities in the world.

– 50 people have applied for jobs as a group leader, she says. Their scientific merit will determine whether they are hired. Meanwhile, those who can bring new, exciting technologies, be good to since the Hong Kong center will focus on new technologies like to see on what proteins that genes produce the cells, new biomaterials and stem cell development.

The center may also be a node in Stockholm, where KI researchers in the spring had to look for 5-8-year grant of 1.6 million each per year. 37 researchers at Karolinska Institutet have applied.

The center aims for basic research. What specific approaches in regenerative medicine as it is a question of is still unclear.

Will the technician to repair the heart, lungs, blood, liver or nerves?

– It will appear later in the fall when the composition of the researchers become clear, says Agneta Wallin Levinovitz.

Prior to this, two committees with external scientific reviewers are appointed. Center’s new steering committee, to be appointed before the summer, will be responsible for the appointment. The former was led by Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, Dean of Research, who also left his post after Macchiarini affair.

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This is regenerative medicine

is it possible to cook or replace damaged tissues and organs by inserting stem cells? Or smart molecules can shake new life into the cells that remain? The question employs thousands of researchers worldwide. The area is known as regenerative medicine.

Within the field there hope to eventually be able to repair or make new body parts, which can replace tissues and organs affected by illness or injury.



the tours around the Ming Wai Lau donation

Ming Wai Lau has doctorate in law at Harvard in the United States and the steering father Joseph Lau’s real estate empire Chinese Estates Holdings after he was sentenced to prison for paid bribes in Macau.

KI donation on 405 million was featured in the Hong Kong media last year, then the son of C Y Leung, Hong Kong’s chief minister, received a training place at KI and started studying in Stockholm. Leung’s son is part of a research team led by Professor Kenneth Chien.

Chien has many years experience in stem cell research was in the original Steering Committee for Ming Wai Lau-center.

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