The Context: Neuropsychiatric disorders are notoriously hard to study due to their complexity and the inaccessibility of human brain tissue for experimentation. However, recent advances in...
The Context: Perhaps you’ve noticed that some people seem to get COVID-19 more easily than others. This could be due to differences in our genomes. Our...
First induced pluripotent stem cell model of PTSD offers insights into underlying genetics and opportunities for new therapies (Sign up for our upcoming webinar on November...
The Context: Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) affects more than 12 million people worldwide. Only a minority of people exposed to trauma will end up with PTSD,...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today announced the 2022 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators, welcoming six outstanding stem cell researchers and neuroscientists into...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation’s (NYSCF) 16th Annual Conference convenes global leaders in stem cell research to present their latest progress towards treatments and cures...
There are many ways to pursue a career in STEM, and not all of them involve becoming an academic. Last month, as part of the NYSCF...
Science is much more than textbooks and lectures: it’s dynamic, interdisciplinary, and hands-on. For the past three summers, NYSCF has brought talented young minds together for...
For Iva Knezevic, a tour of NYSCF’s labs at age 14 sparked an interest in stem cells and a yearning to use them to better understand...
NEW YORK, NY (September 9, 2022) – The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today announced the death of its Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Susan...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation mourns the loss of Board Director Emeritus John L. Eastman, who, with his wife Jodie, was a founding supporter of...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation is deeply saddened by the death of Junior Leadership Council member Sabrina Bertucci, who received the NYSCF Stem Cell Hero...
NYSCF mourns the passing of our Leadership Council Member Julian Robertson. Since 2010, Julian and the Robertson Foundation have been transformational partners in several of NYSCF’s...
Spencer Haws might be relatively new to the field of stem cells, but he’s diving in head first to understand a disease with few treatment options:...
In NYSCF – Druckenmiller Postdoctoral Fellow Sophie Morgani’s lab, run by Philipp Leucht at the NYU Grossman School of Medicine, there’s a bit of a curse....
When NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Noopur Khobrekar, PhD, reflects on her career in research, she recalls an early fascination with how much our cells can do. ...
For NYSCF – Druckenmiller Postdoctoral Fellow Munisha Mumingjiang, MD, PhD, of Cornell University, a planned career as an OB/GYN sparked a drive to understand a notoriously...
For Chandrika Rao, PhD, pursuing an important and challenging scientific question is a key driver of her passion for research, and what more critical and elusive...
Most people know Paola Arlotta, PhD, Professor and Chair of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University, for her seminal contributions to...
With the recent boom of interest in regenerative medicine, researchers will need to scale up their ability to manufacture cells for therapies. New York City has...
The Context: It was long thought that our body’s capacity to repair wounds relied entirely on skin cells, which are able to sense low levels of...
The Context: Early human embryos created for IVF (in which an egg is fertilized and grown outside the body before being implanted to begin a pregnancy)...
The Context: Associating memories with good and bad feelings is something we do daily without a second thought. However, scientists have been working hard to discern...
This week, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) named NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon, JD, to its Life Sciences Advisory Council, a group of...
