NYSCF Innovator Sheds Light on Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Kristen Brennand, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, used advanced stem cell technology to support the hypothesis that...
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NYSCF Investigator Chills Brains to Understand Language
NYSCF-Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Michael A. Long, NYU, cooled areas of the brain associated with speech to see the effects on patients. Previously, neuroscientists have relied on...
NYSCF Innovators Awarded Highest Honor by U.S. Government for Early Career Scientists
Every year, the President awards a group of scientists with the Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers. This year, two NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience...
NYSCF Investigator Understands Loneliness Under a Microscope
Scientists understand that socializing triggers the brain’s reward system. Brain cells in a specific region of the brain secrete dopamine, a chemical involved in addiction, movement...
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...
NYSCF Congratulates Dr. Lorenz Studer on Being Named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow
The MacArthur Foundation named Dr. Lorenz Studer a 2015 MacArthur Fellow. A Founding member of NYSCF’s Medical Advisory Board, Dr. Studer served on inaugural juries of...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Studies Visuomotor Processing
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Gaby Maimon, The Rockefeller University, published his latest work studying visuomotor processing in fruit flies. The research, published in Nature...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Named 2015 Blavatnik National Laureate in Life Sciences
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Edward Chang, University of California, San Francisco, has been named a 2015 Blavatnik National Laureate in Life Sciences for his...
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 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...
NYSCF Partners with Stanley Center at the Broad Institute to Study Psychiatric Diseases
The NYSCF Research Institute is partnering with the Stanley Center at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard to develop a stem cell resource to study...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Makes Strides in Understanding Facial Recognition
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Winrich Freiwald, The Rockefeller University, published his latest work on macaque facila processing in Current Biology. The researchers identified a...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Creates New Technology to 3D Image Biological Samples
NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Ed Boyden, MIT Media Lab, described in Science the newest technology developed in his lab for imaging biological samples. The technology,...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Explores Neural Cell Differentiation
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Alex Meissner, Harvard University, published the lastest research out of his lab investigating the regulation of neural cell differentiation...
NYSCF and CMTA Collaborate to Advance Research for Neuropathies
NYSCF and the Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association (CMTA), a patient-led disease foundation with a mission to advance research on genetic neuropathies leading to the development of new therapies,...
Dr. Marius Wernig Awarded 4th Annual NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize
NYSCF announced that Dr. Marius Wernig, of Stanford University, is the recipient of the NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize. Dr. Wernig and his team discovered...
Stem Cells Help Researchers Understand Schizophrenia
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Kristen Brennand of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai led a team of scientists that discovered that...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Reprograms Skin Cells to Mimic Rare Disease
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Gabsang Lee, of John’s Hopkins University School of Medicine, was senior author on a Cell Stem Cell paper describing...
NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Discovers First Ever Selector Gene for Neurons
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Paola Arlotta, of Harvard University, published her latest work on gene co-regulation in Nature Neuroscience. The regulatory logic, or...
NYSCF Scientists Lead Rare Disease Investigations
To address the unmet needs of patients, NYSCF researchers have been at the forefront of rare disease research. Scientists at the NYSCF Research Institute, our Fellows,...
New Research From NYSCF Investigator Could Treat ALS
Paola Arlotta, a NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator, has reported in Nature Cell Biology the possibility to reprogram one type of neuron into another in...