Helen M. Blau

New Capabilities

Leading clinical translation efforts through Epirium Bio

Since 1743, when surgeon William Hunter declared that damaged cartilage 'is never recovered,' medicine has accepted this as biological fact. Nearly 300 years later, Stanford researchers have demonstrated something different: an injectable drug that blocks a single protein can regrow cartilage in aging mice—and in human tissue samples taken from knee replacement patients.

Updated Feb 17