Jan Nolta Lab 2012

2012 -Welcome to the Nolta Lab at the University Of California, Davis: Health Sciences Campus in Sacramento

Lab focus:

• Human mesenchymal stem cell-mediated repair of damaged tissues: MSCs used to secrete factors for tissue repair and disease correction.
• Developing therapies for Huntington's disease and vascular disorders in our lab, and other diseases through team science at UC Davis. 
• Team science: induced pluripotent stem cells for organ bioengineering and disease correction.
• Facilitating teamwork and performing IND-enabling studies to enable clinical trials of stem cell therapy

Our laboratory works in translational biology at the GLP, or “good laboratory practice” level, required to take stem cell therapies, gene therapy and tissue repair studies from the bench to the bedside.

Dr. Nolta is Director of the UC Davis Stem Cell Program and Scientific Director of the GMP facility and assists other Principal Investigators with the rules and regulations involved with obtaining approvals from the Recombinant advisory committee (RAC) and the FDA for cellular therapies. She works closely with Dr. Gerhard Bauer, the Director of the Good Manufacturing Practice Facility in the UC Davis Institute for Regenerative Cures.

Basic/translational work in our lab centers around developing stem cell therapies for peripheral vascular disease and other ischemic disorders, and using stem cells to treat neurodegenerative disorders, primarily focusing on Huntington's Disease.