Senta Georgia—principal investigator at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA), and assistant professor of pediatrics, and stem cell biology and regenerative medicine at USC—has a creative idea for helping children with a genetic form of diabetes and malabsorptive diarrhea called enteric anendocrinosis. And through its Discovery Inception program, the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) has put forth $180,000 to turn her idea into meaningful progress towards new stem cell-based treatments.

To read more, visit stemcell.usc.edu/2016/08/05/usc-stem-cell-researcher-senta-georgia-wins-cirm-discovery-inception-award.