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Guo receives the Academic Senator Award.

Guo is awarded the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research Seed Grant.

Guo wins a competitive funding from American Heart Association.

We welcome Suzanne Vuong to start her master thesis research in the lab.

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Good bye to our summer students Jasmine and Kevin.

Guo is awarded the 2016 American Federation for Aging Research Junior Faculty Grant.

We host high school students from the Summer Biomedical Internship Program and show them our research of heart regeneration using zebrafish and cell culture.

We host the CVRI summer Happy Hour.

Justin Judd, Alex Payumo, Kentaro Hirose, and Victoria Cheung attends International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) Annual Meeting. Justin presents his research in the meeting.

Congratulations to Alex Payumo on being selected as a prestigious UCSF-IRACDA Scholar!

Welcome summer student Kevin Yu and UCSF SRTP student Jasmine King!

An outstanding presentation by Alex Payumo in the CVRI Postdoc/student RIPS.

Congratulations to Suzanne Vuong on her completion of Master research training in the lab and receiving internship offers from Genentech and Varian Medical Systems.

Welcome Victoria Cheung to perform rotation research with us!

Kentaro Hirose joined us and started in the lab. Welcome!

Welcome Alex Payumo to begin in the lab!

Fareware to Li Chen. We are grateful to her remarkable productivity during this one-year visiting period. Best wishes for her career in her independent laboratory.

Guo is named 2016 Basil O’Connor Starter Scholar of the March of Dimes Foundation.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to everyone!

We become a member of the Core Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine.

Farewell to Jonathan Lovas. We greatly appreciate his tremendous contributions to many projects in the lab, and we wish him the best in graduate school at Columbia University.

Rachel Bigley joins the lab. Welcome!

Justin Judd gave outstanding presentations of their research in CVRI Research-In-Progress.

Congratulations to William Yuan on his new job in United Technologies Co. His creative work on the intravital imaging of the heart has made a mission impossible achieved spectacularly.

Our first three birthday celebrations (in three weeks). Happy Birthdays!

Our first time to host the CVRI Happy Hour.

Congratulations to Jonathan Lovas on his graduate school admission!

Welcome Li Chen to begin in the lab.

We join the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research.

Congratulations to Felicia Kemp on her new position in Bavarian Nordic Inc. She has done a fabulous job to help set up the lab.

Justin Judd presented his work at the CVRI annual retreat.

Congratulations to Rachid Seqqat on obtaining a Professorship in Army University-ESPE, Ecuador.

Guo is granted the Edward Mallinckrodt Jr. Foundation Award.

The Huang lab receives support from the Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research.

Rachid Seqqat joins the lab. Welcome!

Justin Judd receives NIH T32 postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations!

Welcome Justin Judd and William Yuan to start in the lab.

Felicia Kemp and Jonathan Lovas join the lab as the first members.

We start to celebrate the 150-year anniversary of UCSF (1864-2014).

Guo Huang starts as Assistant Professor in the Department of Physiology and an Investigator of Cardiovascular Research Institute at UCSF. The Huang lab is located on the Mission Bay Campus of UCSF. We are supported by the NIH Pathway to Independence Award (K99/R00) and Life Sciences Research Foundation.

09/2016

Welcome Berkeley URAP undergraduate students Steven Chang and Alison Hoang to join us!

Kevin return back to school and he will continue his research with us.

Welcome Chloe Wuyahan to join us!

Our first research method paper for long-term culture of adult mouse cardiomyocytes is published in JoVE. Fabulous team effort to tackle one of the most challenging task in the field! Now we can culture healthy adult cardiomyocytes up to three weeks and even with synchronized beating. Congratulations to Justin and Jon!

10/2016

Congratulations to Jasmine King on receiving both the travel award and the Best Poster

Award in the SACNAS conference to present her summer research with us.

We love UCSF!

12/2016

Huang lab holiday lunch. Wish everyone another prosperous and productive year!

Alex Payumo presents his research in the Bay Area IRACDA Scientific Retreat and receives the Best Speaker Award (only one from UCSF). Congratulations!

Stephen Cutie joins the lab as our first graduate student. Welcome!

Congratulations to our lab manager Rachel Bigley on getting into her dream medical school:

UCSF!

Congratulations to Alison Hoang on receiving both a Rose Hills SURF Fellowship and a URAP Summer Award to continue her research on the evolution of heart regeneration in the lab this summer!

Welcome Lei Gu to join us!

Jasmine King receives a prestigious NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award (2017-2020). Congratulations!

Congratulations to our summer student Jasmine King, who was admitted to the UCSF BioE graduate program and awarded the Chancellor’s Fellowship.

Welcome our new URAP students Margarita Fedorova, Raeline Valbuena and Emma Ye.

Rachel’s review is highlighted in Advanced Science News. Great work!

Our review “Insights into nuclear dynamics using live-cell imaging approaches” is published in WIREs Systems Biology and Medicine. Congratulations to Rachel Bigley and Alex Payumo!

Welcome Stephen Cutie from the Bioengineering program to start his rotation research on

exploring and exploiting novel mammalian species with cardiac regenerative potentials.

Justin Judd’s chapter Cellular approaches to adult mammalian heart regeneration is published in the book Innovations in Molecular Mechanisms and Tissue Engineering.

Jasmine King presents her summer research and wins the Best Presentation Award in the

Gulf Coast Undergraduate Research Symposium at Rice University. Congratulations!

Our interview on regenerative biology is published in Nature! Unlock your inner salamander.

We are visited by high school students from the Summer Biomedical Internship Program again. Enjoy watching live zebrafish and beating cardiomyocytes in a dish, our favorite systems to study heart regeneration!.

Welcome Vanessa Wazny and Belinda Tan to join the lab!

Huang lab summer lunch.

We are awarded a 5-year R01 grant from National Institute of Health.

Congratulations to Stephen Cutie, Alison Hoang and Alex Payumo on the publication in Dev Cell. It is our graduate student Stephen’s first first-authored publication! More to come.

Alex Payumo is selected as one of only three postdoc speakers and gives an outstanding talk in the UCSF BMS retreat.

UCSF launches landmark $5 billion fundraising campaign.

Welcome our new URAP students Nicole Madrazo and Soofie Motamedi.

Congratulations to Kentaro Hirose for receiving the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship!

Welcome Hangyu (Louis) Si to join the lab!

Join us for the summer Happy Hour!

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Welcome rotation student Jasmine King from the Bioengineering program.

Welcome our new Berkeley URAP students Hannah Kania, Alexis Ilamas, Shea Khyeam, Amy Zhong, David Xia-zhu, and our first SFSU BUILD program student Jacob Gomez.

Dominic, Vanessa and Stephen’s mini-review “Cardiac Repair and Regeneration” is accepted in Cell & Developmental Biology. Congratulations!

Welcome Mega Koleske! Our first rotation student from the Pharmaceutical Sciences and Pharmacogenomics (PSPG) program.

Welcome our summer student Belinda Tan back. She will continue her research with us during the winter break. Congratulations to her on being selected as a McNair Research Scholar, a highly competitive program at UCSD where she will contribute >20 hrs per week to research in school time.

Huang lab holiday lunch.

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Alex and his zebrafish appear on the school shuttle bus.

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Stephen passed his Qual Exam. Now officially our first Ph.D. candidate. Congratulations!

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We are grateful to the fundings from CDMRP of Department of Defense.

Kentaro Hirose receives a travel award to attend and speaks in the 41st annual meeting of the Molecular Biology Society of Japan (Yokohama, Japan). Congratulations!

Stephen Cutie attends the meeting ABRCMS 2018 in Indianapolis.

Kentaro Hirose presents his research in the 3rd Japan-US Science Forum in Boston.

Stephen Cutie attends the National Science Policy Network conference in New York.

Alex Payumo and Kentaro Hirose presents their research in the CVRI retreat.

Stephen Cutie receives a favorable score for his NIH F31 fellowship.

CVRI Happy Hour hosted by the Huang lab.

Welcome our new URAP students Katarina Cohen, Michelle Yang and Shirley Zhou.

Kentaro Hirose is invited to present in the 13th International Workshop on Resistance to Thyroid Hormone in Netherlands. Great talk!

Stephen Cutie is awarded with Hillblom Graduate Student Fellowship. Congratulations!

We welcome Xiaoxin Chen to join the lab.

Our collaborative TMC grant with Laird lab, Knox lab, Tien lab, Brack lab and Villeda lab is funded by Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research.

We welcome Niall Graham, Alistair Rookes and Lilly Tang to join the lab.

Alex Payumo attends and presents his work in the IRACDA meeting 2018 in Atlanta.

The Huang lab receives New Frontier Research grant from the Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research.

An outstanding presentation by Kentaro Hirose in the CVRI Postdoc/student RIPS.

Congratulations to our Berkeley URAP students Steven Chang, Margarita Fedorova, Alison Hoang and Emma Ye on their graduation from college!

Huang lab photo, lunch and birthday celebration after terrific presentations by rotation and undergrad students.

12/2018

Huang lab 2018 holiday lunch. Happy holidays!

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Huang lab summer lunch.

Welcome Ai Tran from UCLA to join us for a three-month summer research.

Alex Payumo Presents his work in Gordon Research Conference: Tissue Repair and Regeneration in New London, NH.

Kentaro is selected for plenary presentation of his work at the 2019 Weinstein Cardiovascular Development & Regeneration Meeting in Indianapolis. Excellent job!

Congratulations to both Shea Khyeam and Amy Zhong on receiving the Berkeley URAP Summer Award to study heart regeneration this summer.

Welcome Michael Kardorff to join the lab!

Congratulations to Shea Khyeam on receiving the Berkeley SURF L&S Fellowship to study cardiomyocyte polyploidization.

Our paper about thyroid hormone, heart regeneration and endothermy is now published here.

Editor’s Summary: The price of staying warm

Science perspective: Lost in fire

News reports of our findings Link.

A 60-SECOND SCIENCE podcast by Scientific American

Hormone Made Our Ancestors Warmed-Blooded but Left Us Susceptible to Heart

Damage

Kentaro and Alex’s paper is accepted in Science. Hooray!

Welcome Xi Chen and new URAP students Nevan Powers and Albert Huang to join the lab.

Stephen Cutie’s NIH F31 fellowship is funded! Congratulations!

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CVRI Happy Hour hosted by the Huang lab.

Alex Payumo shares his research at the CVRI annual retreat in a dark night (yes, there was no power).

Stephen Cutie presents his work in the UCSF/UC Berkeley Bioengineering Graduate Program retreat.

Welcome our new Berkeley URAP student James Lee and Alex Amram to join us.

We are proud of our summer student Shea Khyeam for her terrific Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship presentation. She will continue to perform research with us for her honored thesis. We look forward to exciting discoveries from her.

Stephen presents his research in the 3rd Pan American Evo Devo meeting in Miami, FL.

Welcome Luc Marsden and Katie Yuen to join the lab.

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Congratulations to Alex Payumo for being awarded with American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Alex Payumo receives an excellent score of his NRSA F32 fellowship application.

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Welcome Shea Khyeam to be our new lab manager and perform post-bacc research!

Congratulations to Shea Khyeam on her graduation!

Stephen Cutie’s first-authored publication is online. Congratulations to Stephen, Alex and Dom!

Alex Payumo is awarded with NIH NRSA F32 Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Alex Amran on receiving the Berkeley URAP Summer Award.

Alex Payumo’s preview on the role of Lamin B2 in cardiomyocyte nuclear division is out in Developmental Cell. Congrats!

Congratulations to Amy Zhong on being awarded Berkeley SURF L&S Fellowship.

Congratulations to Nevan Powers on receiving Rose Hills SURF Fellowship.

Welcome our new URAP students Christian Ringler and Wei-Chi Chen.

Congratulations to Alex Payumo on being offered a tenure-track faculty position!

Congratulations to Kentaro Hirose on staring his new position in biotech industry back in Tokyo!

Huang lab winter lunch. Happy holidays!

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07/2020

Huang lab holiday lunch! Happy Holidays!

We join the labs of Buchwalter, Elphege and Irannejad for a holiday cookie decorating party. Guess which one is the winner.

Congratulations to Xi Chen on receiving the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Alex and Xi’s paper is now published in Circulation.

We are granted a Bakar Aging Research Institute Investigator Award to study cardiovascular aging and regeneration.

Welcome Feng Zhang, Lynda Jauregui and Isabella Nguyen to join us.

Stephen sails through his PhD defense and is now Dr. Cutie! Congratulations!

Our group photo in memory of this special year.

We welcome Sergey Ingram, Diana Oguntala and Jiacheng Wang to join the lab.

Denzel Omengan, Nevan Powers and Xinkai Yao started in the lab. Welcome!

All COVID-related restrictions are lifted at UCSF. No need of mask any more on campus!

Kentaro Hirose accepted a faculty position and will start his laboratory at the National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Japan. Congratulations!

Alex and Xi’s paper is accepted in Circulation! Congratulations!

Congratulations to Nevan Powers on receiving the Outstanding Scholar Award.

Congratulations to Amy Zhong on receiving the I.L. Chaikoff Memorial Award.

The review by Shea Khyeam and James Lee on Genetic, Epigenetic and Post-transcriptional Basis of Divergent Tissue Regenerative Capacities Among Vertebrates is published in Advanced Genetics. Congratulations!

We have three undergrads graduating this year. Congratulations to Cameron Glick, Amy Zhong and Nevan Powers!

Niall Graham’s review on Endocrine Influence on Cardiac Metabolism in Development and Regeneration is published in Endocrinology. Congratulations!

Christian Ringler is granted the URAP Summer Research Award.

Both Amy Zhong and Nevan Powers are selected for oral presentation in the Berkeley MCB Departmental Honors Symposium. Congrats to both of them!

We welcome Jacob Kyle from the BMS program as our spring rotation student.

Congratulations to Xiaoxin Chen on being awarded the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship.

Congrats to Athreya Rangavajhula on receiving the Mayo Clinic SURF fellowship, Amanda Li on taking an industrial summer internship, and Allen Khudaverdyan on being selected for the SURF Rose Hills Fellowship to continue his research with us this summer.

Stephen Cutie’s review Vertebrate Cardiac Regeneration: Evolutionary and Developmental Perspectives is published in Cell Regeneration. Congratulations!

Welcome spring rotation student Lakyn Mayo from the MD-PhD program.

Welcome URAP students Amanda Li, Athreya Khudaverdyan, Jennifer Ruffing, Allen Khudaverdyan, Julie Ma and Cameron Glick to join us!

We welcome our winter rotation student Carlos Estrada from the Tetrad program.

Alex Amram and Stephen Cutie’s review Hormonal Control of Cardiac Regenerative Potential is out in Endocrine Connections. Congrats!

Welcome Deepa Rajan (MD-PhD program) as a rotation student.

We are granted the American Heart Association Transformational Project Award.

After more than seven months, we resume our in-person birthday celebration. Happy Birthday! Happy Halloween! A good way to shake off some stress in the pandemic.

Stephen Cutie presents in the BioE graduate program retreat. Excellent talk!

Welcome Sara Gonzalez Ortega to join us!

Xiaoxin Chen and Shea Khyeam present their work in TETRAD, BMS and DSCB graduate program retreats.

Special group photo and summer lab party (with physical distance)

Congratulations to Shea Khyeam and Amy Zhong who will start graduate school at MIT and medical school at UCSF, respectively!

We are awarded a second R01 grant from National Institute of Health.

Welcome Sangsoon Park to start in the lab!

Congrats to Sara Gonzalez Ortega, Jiacheng Wang and Denzel Omenga on receiving and taking PhD offers from King’s College London, Duke University, and University of California, Davis respectively.

Welcome Lyla Krock, Sarp Kurtoglu, Jinghui Tao and Marcin Maniak to join us!

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In person Holiday Parties finally after three years. Cardiovascular Research Institute holiday party, and then Physiology Department holiday party.

Huang lab holiday lunch after terrific presentations from our undergrad students.

Both Feng Zhang and Sangsoon Park are awarded the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!

Thanksgiving lab lunch! This time, it is hot pot!

Makoto Nakamura is awarded the Japan Society for the Promotion Science postdoctoral fellowship. Congratulations!

Xi Chen presents in the Stem Cell Institute Retreat.

Melod Mehdipour and Nevan Powers present in the BMS graduate program retreat.

Haiming Hu from the Tetrad graduate program joins us as a rotation student. Welcome!

We welcome our new URAP students Amanjot Bains, Alissa Hamner, Germaine Mendez, Bradley Vu, Olivia Xu, Sophia Xu, Clara Szalay, and Kevin Yao.

Xi Chen presents in the Bay Area Metabolism Research Symposium.

Welcome Makoto Nakamura and Joseph Moreno to the Huang lab!

We receive a generous Research Award from the Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program.

Welcome Melod Mehdipour to join us!

Congratulations on Nevan Powers’ publication “Visualization of regenerating and repairing hearts” in Clin. Sci.!

Allen Khudaverdyan wins the Outstanding Scholar Award from Berkeley. Congratulations!

Congratulations to Lynda Jauregui, Athreya Rangavajhula, Allen Khudaverdyan and Jinghui Tao on graduation!

Nevan Powers’ preview “Mending a broken heart with novel cardiogenic small molecules” is out in Cell Regeneration. Congratulations!

Group photo and summer lab lunch!

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Our summer student research symposium joint with Dr. Ritchie Chen’s lab. Watch out for these future stars!

What terrific poster and oral presentations of his summer research by Leandro Sanabria-Alberto in the SRTP Symposium!

Welcome Jayden Glover from the University of the Ozarks!

We win the Mid Career Investigator Research Competition Award from the International Society for Heart Research North American Section.

June Lee from Claremount McKenna College joins us for summer research. Welcome!

Welcome our UCSF SRTP student Leandro Sanabria-Alberto to start summer research with us.

Dominic Ramirez joins us for summer research. Welcome!

Alex Payumo presents in the Weinstein Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration Conference.

Xiaoxin Chen gives an oral presentation in the 14th Annual International Workshop on Resistance to Thyroid Hormone.

Congratulation to Christian Ringler on college graduation with the I.L. Chaikoff Memorial Award.

Terrific presentations from our undergrads. We are so proud of you. Lab summer lunch!

We are the 2023/24 recipient of the UC Berkeley-UCSF Faculty Collaboration Program award. It’s exciting to develop intravital kilohertz imaging techniques to visualize heart regeneration at single-cell solution with Dr. Na Ji’s lab at UC Berkeley.

Happy Hour flyers made by talented Christian Ringler (left) and Joseph Moreno (right). They tied for the winner of the lab happy hour flyer competition. What creative arts!

We receive the Established Investigator Award from American Heart Association!

Our lab will host the first post-pandemic in-person happy hour for the Smith Cardiovascular Research Building. Time for our undergrads and postbacs to show their talents and creativity to draft happy hour fliers. Every lab member voted for the favorite one. We got a tie for the winners of the competition. Stay tuned. Winners and their final products will be announced soon!

Congrats to Bradley Vu and Germaine Mendez on being selected for the SURF Rose Hills Fellowship to continue his research with us this summe and Sarp Kurtoglu on taking an industrial summer internship!

Xiaoxin Chen and Xi Chen present in the CVRI retreat.

We welcome new URAP students Annelise Prince and Sara Akselrod.

Happy holidays! Photo from the Stem Cell Institute Retreat.

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Outstanding presentations from our undergrads. Celebration for winter holidays!

Lab Thanksgiving lunch!

Eric Tang from the Tetrad program starts his rotation project. Welcome!

We welcome new URAP students Ishna Pandey, Benedek Sipos, Katherine Kan, Colin Rushing

and Brittney Gladstein!

Congratulations to Xiaoxin Chen on receiving the Program for Breakthrough Biomedical Research Independent Postdoctoral Research Award!

The same spot seven years later. We are recruiting at all levels!

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Lab Thanksgiving lunch!

We receive a Collaborative Project Award with Ritchie Chen’s lab to study the heart-brain crosstalk in aging. If you are interested in joining us working on this topic, please contact us.

We welcome our new Berkeley URAP students Skye Leng, Justin Tofuri, Mark Keller, Harry Huang, Yiyang Zhang, Emily Wang, Gina Hua, Xiaopei Chen!

Excited for our current and past trainees to start their next stages of career: Joseph Moreno (PhD at UCSF), Nevan Powers (MD-PhD at Columbia University), Xinkai Yao (PhD at Scripps), Athreya Rangavajhula (PhD at Yale). Congrats!

Congratulations to Makoto Nakamura on being awarded PBBR Postdoctoral Independence Research Award!

Welcome our visiting summer student Yichen Liu to join!

Melod Mehdipour receives CVRI T32 postdoctoral fellowship. Congrats!

Sarp Kurtoglu is awarded the Bioengineering Department Service Award. Congratulations! Only three senior students in Bioengineering receive honors awards every year and only one receives the Department Service Award.

Lab lunch and photo time. Celebration of our lab 10th anniversary! Thank you all for your contributions! Look forward to what you will accomplish in the next ten years.

Xiaoxin Chen delivers the opening talk in the Weinstein Conference on Cardiovascular Development and Regeneration in Montreal, Canada.

Xiaoxin Chen gives a fabulous oral presentation in the Bay Area Aging Meeting.

Sarp Kurtoglu and Ishna Pandey graduate from college. Happy Graduation!

Congratulations to Annelise Prince and Kevin Yao on being awarded the SURF Rose Hills and L&S Fellowship, respectively!

We host the CVRI happy hour. Our creative undergrads design many remarkable flyers.

Congratulations to Alissa Hamner on being selected for the Study Abroad Program! She will head to the University of London Queen Mary next semester.

Xiaoxin Chen and Sangsoon Park present posters in the CVRI annual retreat. Congrats to Xiaoxin on winning the CVRI Retreat Poster Award!

Jun Sun and Jiale Liu join us as Junior Specialists. Welcome to the Huang lab!

Welcome our new postdoctoral fellow Marco de Leon as well as new undergrad researchers Kara Kodani and Lily Oftedal!

Peng Bai joins the lab as a visiting scholar. Welcome!

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We welcome our new URAP students Isabella Canales, Reagan Crouch Haobo Gao, Eric Khodorenko, Daniel Lin, Sean McCallum, Emma Murry, Marcus Nara, Anuska Parajuli, Citlalli Romero, Samuel Skolnick, McCree Tang, Lyna Wais, Justin Wang and Bella Young!

Marco de Leon is awarded the American Heart Association Postdoctoral Fellowship. Congratulations!

Lab photo (2024 Fall).

So proud of our undergrads and impressed by their amazing research presentations. Time to celebrate their achievements!

Marco de Leon and Katharine Kan’s photos win competition and are selected by the Stem Cell Institute for the holiday greeting card.