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...
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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...
New York Stem Cell Foundation announces $7.5 million to five new NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
Five new NYSCF – Robertson Investigators join the prestigious community of early career scientists making the transition from post-doctoral research to their own labs. The three...
NYSCF 10th Annual Conference: Two Nobel Laureates to Chair and Participate on Panels
At the 10th Annual NYSCF Conference on Translational Stem Cell Research NYSCF will bring together world leaders in biotechnology, regenerative medicine, precision medicine, and pharmaceuticals to...
NYSCF Celebrates 10th Year at Annual Gala
This October, NYSCF honored Stephen M. Ross, Jack and Jeff Gernsheimer, and Mark McCauley as stem cell heroes at the 10th Anniversary Gala. Held at Skylight...
Tenth Annual Gala and Science Fair
The Tenth Annual Gala began with an inside look at the NYSCF laboratory at the NYSCF Science Fair. This October, NYSCF honored Stephen M. Ross, Jack and...
NYSCF and Cord Blood Registry Partner to Generate New Stem Cell Lines
NYSCF and CBR Systems, Inc. DBA Cord Blood Registry (CBR) are collaborating to customize the creation of high-quality stem cell lines from umbilical cord blood tissue....
Stem Cells in Clinical Trials to Cure Blindness
In 2011 NYSCF awarded Dr. Pete Coffey the inaugural NYSCF–Robertson Stem Cell Prize for his pioneering work bringing stem cell therapies to patients with macular degeneration....
Breaking Barriers to Success: Susan L. Solomon Speaks at CUNY Women in Science 2015
As part of CUNY’s ongoing Women in Science series, NYSCF CEO and Co-founder Susan L. Solomon was asked to speak at “Breaking Barriers to Success,” a...
NYSCF Speaks at NIH Workshop on Cell Culture Reproducibility
The National Institute of Health (NIH) invited Susan Solomon to chair and moderate a panel at September’s NIH Workshop on Reproducibility in Cell Culture Studies. The...