2017 Year in Review
As we enter 2018, NYSCF is taking a moment to look back on the milestones of 2017. With your support, we accelerated our research, began new...
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Researchers Identify Key Environment for Creating Blood Stem Cells
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, including first author and NYSCF – Druckenmiller Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Raphael Lis, reprogrammed adult mouse endothelium, the tissue that lines blood...
Announcing The 2017 Class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
NYSCF welcomed six of the most talented stem cell researchers and neuroscientists from around the world into the NYSCF Investigator Program and the NYSCF Innovator Community....
Unique and Comprehensive Collection of Stem Cell Lines Available to Researchers Around the Globe
NYSCF and the Beyond Batten Disease Foundation (BBDF) partnered to create a unique and comprehensive collection of juvenile Batten (CLN3) disease induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells....
NYSCF Innovator Uses Gene Editing Technology to Screen Deadly Brain Cancer for Weaknesses
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator and NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize Awardee Dr. Feng Zhang and his team at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT...
NYSCF Innovator Discovers Cells Police Neighbors
Cells in healthy tissue still acquire mutations. While many of these mutations are serious, and potentially cancerous, they rarely cause large-scale change within the tissue. NYSCF –...
Utilizing Expansion Microscopy for Diagnosis
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Alumnus Dr. Ed Boyden, a professor at MIT Media Lab, has developed a new technique for precisely imaging biopsy samples utilizing standard...
NYSCF Innovator Improves Research Model For Blood Cancer
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Ravindra Majeti, Stanford University School of Medicine, improved on human blood disease modeling using mouse models. The research, published...
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 – 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...
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...
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....
NYSCF and Q-State Biosciences collaborate to create patient-specific stem cells from blood
NYSCF announces a new partnership with Q-State Biosciences (Q-State) to generate high quality stem cells from patient blood cells. The collaboration will mark the first time...
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 – 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...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Works to Understand Leukemia
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Ravindra Majeti, of Stanford University, published in Nature Medicine on his latest work studying genetic susceptibilities in acute myeloid...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Gains Insight Into Cancer Adaption
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Alex Meissner, Harvard University, analyzed the genetic patterns in cancer cells and found that disarray in the cellular on-off...
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Discovers New Insights Into Blood-Forming Stem Cell Regulation
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow Dr. Sandra Pinho, of Albert Einstein College of Medicine, was part of a team of scientists who recently discovered new insights into...
Scientists Identify Key Protein For Cell Pluripotency
NYSCF – Druckenmiller Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Raffaella Di Micco of New York University School of Medicine was first author for a paper published in Cell Reports...