{"id":3348,"date":"2017-09-11T12:55:39","date_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/?p=3348"},"modified":"2017-09-11T12:55:39","modified_gmt":"2017-09-11T16:55:39","slug":"crem-honored-for-sharing-stem-cell-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/2017\/09\/11\/crem-honored-for-sharing-stem-cell-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"CReM Honored for Sharing Stem Cell Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Darrell Kotton, Gustavo Mostoslavsky, and George Murphy began the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/dbin\/stemcells\/\">Center for Regenerative Medicine<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>(CReM) in 2008 with a mission. It was not to win a Nobel Prize, launch more spin-offs than their peers, or make megabucks and retire at 35. Rather, their mantra was both humbler and grander: \u201cdecrease the burden of human suffering on the planet, help patients, and advance new knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the lab has made a name for itself not only through its top-notch<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/research\/articles\/crem-scientists-turn-ips-cells-into-lung-cells\/\">research on stem cells and lung disease<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>but also because of its willingness to share the resources they create\u2014for free, to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>CReM\u2019s philosophy of openness challenges the cutthroat, hypersecret culture that dominates many other life science labs. And now the lab\u2019s commitment to open-source biology, as it is known, has earned it the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aamc.org\/members\/great\/479422\/2017researchprogramawards.html\">2017 Sharing Research Resources Award<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>from the<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aamc.org\/\">Association of American Medical Colleges<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>(AAMC), established \u201cto recognize successful models for sharing biomedical research resources.\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2017\/crem-wins-aamc-sharing-research-resources-award\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read More!<\/a><br \/>\n<span>By\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/author\/barbara-moran\/\">Barbara Moran<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darrell Kotton, Gustavo Mostoslavsky, and George Murphy began the\u00a0Center for Regenerative Medicine\u00a0(CReM) in 2008 with a mission. It was not to win a Nobel Prize, launch more spin-offs than their peers, or make megabucks and retire at 35. Rather, their mantra was both humbler and grander: \u201cdecrease the burden of human suffering on the planet, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7251,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7251"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3348"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3350,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3348\/revisions\/3350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ctsi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}