NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Studies Pancreatic Development Using Stem Cells
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Shuibing Chen, of Weill Cornell Medical College, and her team studied the development of human pancreatic cells using stem...
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NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Unlocks Clues to Cell Pluripotentcy
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Jacob Hanna, of the Weitzmann Institute of Science in Israel, and his team discovered a critical role played by...
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 – Robertson Investigator Creates First-Ever Human Primordial Germ Cells From Stem Cells
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Jacob Hanna, of the Weitzmann Institute of Science, co-authored a paper published in Cell describing the creation of cellular...
NYSCF – Robertson Prize Winner Lays Foundation for Blistering Skin Disorder Cure
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator and 2014 NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize winner Dr. Marius Wernig, Stanford University School of Medicine, made a breakthrough...
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...
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 Maps DNA Methylation
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator, Dr. Alex Meissner of Harvard University, mapped the methyl and demethylation patterns in human cells before and after fertilization. While...
NYSCF Research Breakthrough Featured in NYTimes Magazine Cover Story
The New York Times Magazine featured NYSCF’s cutting-edge research and our efforts to bring to patients our technique of preventing the transmission from mother to child...
Dr. Amy Wagers Recipient of Third NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize
The New York Stem Cell Foundation Awarded Amy Wagers, PhD, with the NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize for her breakthrough research achievements defining the regenerative potential of...
Japan Grants Final Approval for iPS Clinical Trial to Treat Blindness
Japan's regulatory body has given final go-ahead for the first-ever clinical trial testing patient-derived stem cells to treat age-related macular degeneration (AMD), a common form of...
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,...
In Japan, iPS Cell Therapy Fast-Tracked to Clinic
Induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells are slated to enter a clinical study in Japan for the treatment of age-related macular degeneration. Massayo Takahashi, an opthamologist at...
Stem Cell Epigenetics Influence Plasticity
Researchers led by Dr. Manel Esteller, director of the Cancer Epigenetics and Biology Program at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, have uncovered epigenetic changes in adult...
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...
Susan Solomon Presents at TEDGlobal
Susan Solomon, CEO of The New York Stem Cell Foundation, presented on Wednesday June 27 at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh, Scotland. The international wing of the famed...
NYSCF and Harvard Stem Cell Institute to Collaborate on Drug Discovery
New York Stem Cell Foundation, Harvard Stem Cell Institute Announce Joint Effort to Accelerate Drug Discovery NEW YORK, N.Y. (Nov. 17, 2011) — The New York...
Parkinson’s Disease: How Stem Cell Research Will Make a Difference
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) held its sixth annual spring public outreach event to bring together leading stem cell scientists with patient advocates to...
An Interview with Kevin Eggan on his Work in Reprogramming and Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Our first post is an interview with Dr. Kevin Eggan, NYSCF’s Chief Scientific Officer and an Associate Professor in the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative...
Interview with NYSCF Fellow Marco Seandel
Marco Seandel, MD, PhD, was named a NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow in 2008 and is in his third year of the NYSCF Fellowship Program. He was...
Crossing Boundaries: Direct Programming of Fibroblasts into Neurons
Cell Stem Cell, Previews “In a recent paper in Nature, Vierbuchen et al. (2010) show that fibroblasts can be directly convereted into functional neurons by defined...
Interview with NYSCF-Druckenmiller Fellow, Daylon James
NYSCF-Druckenmiler Fellow, Dr. Daylon James, had his research on endothelial differentiation and expansion published in Nature Biotechnology on January 17th. In this interview, Dr. James talks...
Biologists Develop Efficient Genetic Modification of Human Embryonic Stem Cells
UCSD, Biology News “Biologists have developed an efficient way to genetically modify human embryonic stem cells.” Read More »
NYSCF-Druckenmiller Fellow Justin Ichida is Lead Author on Groundbreaking Study
NYSCF applauds NYSCF-Druckenmiller fellow Justin Ichida on his recently published work in Cell Stem Cell, bringing us closer to turning adult cells into patient-specific stem cells...