NYSCF Speaks at International Stem Cell Meeting in Stockholm
NYSCF once again had a large presence at the thirteenth annual meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) in Stockholm, Sweden. NYSCF Scientist...
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NYSCF Scientists Investigate Inflammatory Response After Cardiac Injury
NYSCF Principal Investigator Dr. Danny Freytes led a team of NYSCF scientists at the NYSCF Research Institute in a study investigating the inflammatory response of the...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Publishes on Motor Learning
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Takaki Komiyama, University of California San Diego, identified a key step in how neurons process motor learning. Using two-photon imaging...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Works to Understand Stem Cell Transdifferentiation
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute of Science, tested an alternate method of stem cell transdifferentiation – the process of a...
Top Scientists Gather at NYSCF Innovators Retreat
NYSCF hosted the Sixth Annual Innovators Retreat bringing together over 50 NYSCF-supported scientists for a full week of presentations, introductions, and discussion on the latest research...
NYSCF CEO Presents NYSCF Model at International Conferences
Susan L. Solomon presented at the Days of Molecular Medicine Conference at the Karolinska Institutet, the institution responsible for awarding the Nobel Prize for Physiology or...
NYSCF Scientists Generate Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells from Small Amounts of Cryopreserved Blood
A team of NYSCF scientists demonstrated that small volumes of cryopreserved peripheral and cord blood can be reprogrammed efficiently in a convenient, cost-effective, and scalable way....
NYSCF Global Stem Cell Array, Research Model Highlighted at Meetings
NYSCF scientists presented the NYSCF Global Stem Cell Array technology and NYSCF’s approach to accelerating research at two leading meetings. The talks included a symposium entitled...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Explains How Neurons Differentiate Between Positive and Negative Associations
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Kay Tye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provided a mechanistic explanation characterizing how neurons in the amygdala – the part of...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Makes Advances in Multiple Sclerosis Research
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Paul Tesar, Case Western Reserve School of Medicine, and a team of scientists discovered that two drugs, one used...
NYSCF Innovators Find Clues to Stem Cell Life and Death
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Valentina Greco and NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Dr. Panteleimon Rompolas and their team from Yale University discovered clues to...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Advances Genome Editing Technique
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Feng Zhang, Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, created a smaller molecule for specific genome editing. A commonly used...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Identifies iPS Cell Reprogramming Regulators
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator and 2014 NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize Winner Dr. Marius Wernig, Stanford University School of Medicine, discovered key cell...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Publishes Latest on DNA Methylation
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Alex Meissner, Harvard Universtiy, publsihed his latest work studying DNA methylation patterns in Nature Genetics. Dr. Meissner and his...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Advances New Strategies for Tumor Genome Mapping
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Feng Zhang, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, used a gene editing technology called CRISPR/Cas-9 mediated loss-of-function screen to conduct...
NYSCF Featured Speaker at Alzheimer’s Disease Conference
Dr. Scott Noggle, NYSCF Vice President for Stem Cell Research, presented NYSCF’s latest Alzheimer’s disease research as the keynote speaker at the Alzheimer’s Disease Resource Center’s...
NYSCF IWISE: Advancing Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine
Women are still underrepresented in all STEM fields, a statistic NYSCF is working to change with its Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering (IWISE). In...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Changes Leukemia Cells Into Harmless Immune Cells
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Ravindra Majeti, Stanford University School of Medicine, and a team of researchers showed that cancerous, immature white blood cells...
Inaugural Meeting of the IWISE Working Group – February 2014
Goal: Generate a shortlist of strategies to promote women in science, medicine, and engineering NYSCF convened a group of eminent women scientists, physicians, and leaders for...
2nd Meeting of the IWISE Working Group – February 2015
This meeting was supported by a grant from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Goal: Develop an institutional report card for gender equality At the second meeting,...
Seven Actionable Strategies to Advance Women
NYSCF’s Initiative on Women in Science and Engineering, or IWISE, brings together leading women and men in science, engineering and medicine to address gender equality in these...
NYSCF Parkinson’s Disease Research Featured in Nautilus
An article describing NYSCF’s Parkinson’s disease research featuring Jack and Jeff Gernsheimer, a set of identical twins, only one of whom has Parkinson’s disease, was published...
NYSCF Scientists One Step Closer to Cell Replacement Therapies for MS
For the first time, NYSCF scientists generated induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells lines from skin samples of patients with primary progressive multiple sclerosis and further, they...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Redefines Brain’s ‘Hunger Circuit’
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Zachary Knight and his team from the Universtiy of California, San Francisco conducted experiments that overthrow the scientific consensus on...