The latest news and updates about NYSCF and our collaborators
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Jayaraj Rajagopal, Massachusetts General Hospital, discovered that parent stem cells can serve as niches, or cell maintenance and regulatory...
NYSCF Principal Investigator Dr. Valentina Fossati and NYSCF – Druckenmiller Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Panagiotis Douvaras have improved a method for deriving oligodendrocyte progenitor cells – the types...
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 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...
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 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 Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Jacob Hanna, Weizmann Institute of Science, tested an alternate method of stem cell transdifferentiation – the process of a...
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...
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...
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 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 Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Kay Tye, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, provided a mechanistic explanation characterizing how neurons in the amygdala – the part of...
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 – 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 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 Stem Cell Investigator and 2014 NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize Winner Dr. Marius Wernig, Stanford University School of Medicine, discovered key cell...
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 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...
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...
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 Stem Cell Investigator Dr. Ravindra Majeti, Stanford University School of Medicine, and a team of researchers showed that cancerous, immature white blood cells...
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...
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,...
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 – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Dr. Zachary Knight and his team from the Universtiy of California, San Francisco conducted experiments that overthrow the scientific consensus on...
