Stem Cells Help Restore Hearing in Deaf Gerbils
Published in Nature, researchers at the University of Sheffield led by Dr. Marcelo Rivolta have successfully transplanted human embryonic stem cell-derived auditory nerve cells to treat...
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Stem Cell Conmen Plead Guilty to Charges of Misbranded Treatment and Unapproved Drugs
Given the hope stem cell research offers, some have taken advantage of patients, peddling unapproved, risky “cures” to disease. A 60 Minutes report in 2006 investigated...
Susan L. Solomon and Valentina Fossati Interviewed on Nantucket 228
On Nantucket television program 228, NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon and NYSCF – Helmsley Investigator Valentina Fossati joined host Kate Brosnan to discuss the tremendous impact NYSCF...
Stem Cells as the Future of Medicine, Susan Solomon’s TED Talk Featured on TED Blog
The TED Blog posted an entry on how stem cells are the future of medicine, framing the topic with NYSCF CEO Susan Solomon’s TEDGlobal Talk. In it, Solomon...
Susan L. Solomon to be Honored with Stem Cell Action Award by GPI
Susan L. Solomon will be honored at the Genetic Policy Institute’s (GPI) World Stem Cell Summit with the 2012 Stem Cell Action Award on December 4...
In Cell, Chutima Talchai Demonstrates Insulin-Producing Cells De-differentiate in Type 2 Diabetes
Counter to the prevailing theory that beta cells die-off in Type 2 diabetes patients, NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow and postdoctoral research scientist at Columbia University Medical...
Susan Solomon TED Talk: Realizing the Promise of Stem Cell Research
At TEDGlobal 2012 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Susan Solomon unveiled a breakthrough development from NYSCF Research Institute scientists that could help revolutionize how disease is treated. In...
Dieter Egli and Alex Meissner co-author SCNT Paper in Nature Genetics
Dieter Egli, PhD, a NYSCF Senior Research Fellow, is co-author on a paper published in the August 19th edition of Nature Genetics, a study conducted in...
NYSCF Scientists Develop iPS Cell Model of Alzheimer’s Disease, A Key Step to Understanding Disease
At the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference this past July, Andrew Sproul, PhD, a NYSCF Postdoctoral Associate, presented NYSCF’s latest efforts to understand Alzheimer’s disease. They have...
Dieter Egli Contributes to Study that Provides Evidence of iPS Cell Transplantation Efficacy for Vision Regeneration
Dieter Egli, a NYSCF Senior Research Fellow, contributed to a study published in Molecular Medicine that provides direct evidence of sight-loss recovery using induced pluripotent stem...
Dung-Fang Lee Discovers Signaling Pathway in Embryonic Stem Cell Self-Renewal and Pluripotency
Dung-Fang Lee, PhD, a NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Alumnus at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, has published a new study in the August edition of Cell...
Marius Wernig Reports Advance in Creating Neural Stem Cells
Marius Wernig, MD, a NYSCF – Robertson Investigator at Stanford University, released an update to previously published work confirming that mouse skin cells can bypass the...
Sriram Bandi Creates Early Stage Liver Cells from Stem Cells
Sriram Bandi, PhD, a NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellowship alumnus, published work in the February 2012 Journal of Cell Science finding that cells derived from a human...
NYSCF Featured in Drug Discovery News Article on Stem Cell Research
Interviewed for Drug Discovery News, NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon and NYSCF Vice President of Research and Development Stephen Chang, PhD, revealed the potential for stem...
At Milken Institute’s “Celebration of Science,” Susan L. Solomon Participates on Panel
For a weekend in Washington, DC, “Celebration of Science” convened academic, pharmaceutical, biotech, and governmental leaders to share prominent scientific advances. NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon...
ISSCR 11th Annual Meeting
June 12 – 15, 2013 | Boston Convention and Exhibition Center (BCEC), Boston, MA USA The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR)’s annual meeting has...
Susan L. Solomon Shares the History of NYSCF at Riverside Chats Event
At NYCTech Connect’s Riverside Chat event, NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon engaged an audience at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, recounting the founding of NYSCF. She revealed...
Historic Moment for Genomics, Project ENCODE Reveals the Functional Elements of DNA
In six papers published in Nature, the results of the federally funded effort ENCODE (Encyclopedia of DNA Elements) that extended over 32 labs and involved 440...
Giuseppe Maria de Peppo Honored by His Native Italian Province with the Argos Hippium Prize
Giuseppe Maria de Peppo, PhD, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the NYSCF Laboratory, was honored by his native Italian province of Puglia with the Argos Hippium...
Ravi Majeti Uncovers Mutation Acquisition of Blood-Forming Stem Cells in Leukemia
Tackling the question of why some cells become cancerous, Ravi Majeti, MD, PhD, a NYSCF – Robertson Investigator, and researchers at Stanford University made a landmark...
Darja Marolt Evaluates Bone Scaffolds in a Paper Published in Biomaterials
Darja Marolt, PhD, a NYSCF – Helmsley Investigator, is author on a paper from work undertaken as a postdoctorate published in Biomaterials, in which she and...
Giuseppe de Peppo Publishes Paper on Bone Tissue Formation from Embryonic Stem Cells
In the August 27th edition of Tissue Engineering, Giuseppe de Peppo, PhD, a NYSCF Postdoctoral Research Fellow, published results of a study from his graduate work...
In Nature, Alcohol By-Product Shown to Destroy Blood Stem Cells
Published in Nature, a study led by KJ Patel has revealed how alcohol can damage hematopoietic (or blood) stem cells. When mice lacked an enzyme that...
University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children Create Lung Cells with Stem Cells
Researchers led by Janet Rossant at the University of Toronto and the Hospital for Sick Children have reprogrammed cystic fibrosis patients’ skin samples into induced pluripotent...
U.S. Appeals Court Upholds Ruling to Allow Federal Funding of Embryonic Stem Cell Research
After a three-year legal battle, US Court of Appeals has upheld the District Court’s decision that permits federal funding of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research....