With their 5.3 Million Euro grant the interdisciplinary team led by Filippe Rijli (Friederich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research) and <link en research research-groups martin-lab external-link-new-window internal link in current>Ivan Martin aims to find out whether nasal cartilage cells, which have properties of neural crest cells during development, can be used for the regeneration of intervertebral discs.

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