NYSCF Investigator Chills Brains to Understand Language
NYSCF-Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Michael A. Long, NYU, cooled areas of the brain associated with speech to see the effects on patients. Previously, neuroscientists have relied on...
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Raising the bar on quality cells
NYSCF wants to transform stem cell treatments from dreams to reality. In order to move stem cell-based cures from the theoretical and into clinics, scientists must...
NYSCF Innovators Awarded Highest Honor by U.S. Government for Early Career Scientists
Every year, the President awards a group of scientists with the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. This year, two NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience...
NYSCF Investigator Understands Loneliness Under a Microscope
Scientists understand that socializing triggers the brain’s reward system. Brain cells in a specific region of the brain secrete dopamine, a chemical involved in addiction, movement...
Susan L. Solomon Interviewed by Women’s Health Podcast
NYSCF CEO and Co-founder Susan L. Solomon spoke with Women’s Health’s Online Senior Editor Caitlin Abber for their new podcast “Uninterrupted.” Ms. Solomon participated in a...
The Wall Street Journal Profiles NYSCF CEO and Co-Founder Susan L. Solomon
The Wall Street Journal profiled Susan L. Solomon, NYSCF CEO and Co-Founder. Part of the “Weekend Confidential” series, previously headlining Robert A.M. Stern, Tom Colicchio, and...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation Applauds the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Report on Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) applauds the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released on February 3rd, 2016...
Advancing Women in Science
An eager audience of women and men gathered at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to hear NYSCF CEO and Co-founder Susan L. Solomon...
Dr. Ed Boyden Awarded 2016 BBVA Foundation Award
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Ed Boyden, MIT Media Lab, has won the 2016 biomedicine BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award for his work developing...
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Discovery May Help Modulate Immune System
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Larry Luchsinger, PhD, studies the energy producing centers of the cell, mitochondria, to better understand the cells that produce blood cells, hematopoietic...
NYSCF Mourns The Death of Drew Lyall
The New York Stem Cell Foundation is deeply saddened by the death of Drew Lyall, the inaugural executive director of the Stem Cell Network in Canada....
NYSCF Innovator Deciphers How Birds Learn Songs to Elucidate How to Help Brain Injury Patients
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Michael A. Long studies how birds learn songs to understand how patients might re-learn skills following traumatic injuries. Dr. Long, New...
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Researches How to Help Lungs Repair Themselves
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Zhongwei Cao, PhD, conducts research that may yield breakthrough treatments for lung injury. Dr. Cao, Weill Cornell Medical College, focuses on experiments...
NYSCF Quoted in The Wall Street Journal on Experimental Alzheimer’s Drug Testing
Bringing treatments out of laboratories and into clinics remains a major obstacle for healthcare. Mice and other common lab animals cannot reliably predict human responses to...
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Identifies Mutant Protein Function in Cancer
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Ravindra Majeti studies cancer stem cells in leukemia towards creating high quality and patient-specific treatments. Dr. Majeti, Associate Professor in...
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Examines How Fruit Flies Process Odors
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Vanessa Ruta examined how the brains of fruit flies pass signals from odors to different behavioral pathways. Dr. Ruta, Rockefeller University,...
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Discovers Brain Networks Relate Facial Information To Social Cognition
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Winrich Freiwald, The Rockefeller University, published his latest paper understanding how mammals make sense of faces in PLoS Biology. Faces...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Feng Zhang Engineers Protein to Enhance DNA Editing
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Dr. Feng Zhang pioneered technology to edit DNA. The system he created, CRISPR/Cas9, means scientists can now study disease, cures, and cellular...
NYSCF’s New Home Featured in WSJ, Xconomy
After marking it’s 10th Anniversary, NYSCF is excited to announce a move to the far west side after signing a multi-year lease for 42,000 square-feet at...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Receives Breakthrough Prize
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Ed Boyden, MIT, received a Breakthrough Prize, an award of $3 million, and was celebrated like a star at the...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigators Study and Quantify Pluripotency
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Dr. Alexander Meissner, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, along with NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Dr. Gabsang Lee, John Hopkins University, explored...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Discovers New Proteins to Edit DNA
As NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Feng Zhang, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, explained at The NYSCF Conference, “Nature is smarter than us.” Dr. Zhang’s lab...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Shows Reprogrammed Neurons ‘Rewire’ Communication Networks
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Paola Arlotta, Harvard Stem Cell Institute and the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, showed that neuronal networks of communication...
Franziska Michor receives NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize
At The 2015 NYSCF Conference: Tenth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference, NYSCF announced Franziska Michor. PhD, as the 2015 recipient of the Robertson Stem Cell...