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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 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 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,...
NYSCF and BBDF Present at Partnering For Cures
NYSCF and the Beyond Batten Disease Foundation (BBDF) were selected as a national innovator by the Milken Institute and presented their unique multistakeholder collaboration to find...
Scientists Compare Methods of Cellular Reprogramming
NYSCF scientists, in collaboration with others, compared stem cells created using two different methods: induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells and stem cells created by somatic cell nuclear...
Scientists Create Parkinson’s Disease in a Dish
NYSCF scientists, in collaboration with others, successfully created a human cell model of sporadic Parkinson’s disease in a dish. The scientists had the unique opportunity to study...
NYSCF Research Institute Announces Largest-Ever Stem Cell Repository
The NYSCF Research Institute, through the launch of its repository in 2015, will provide the largest-ever number of stem cell lines available to the scientific research...
NYSCF Awards $9M to Six New NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
The 2014 NYSCF – Robertson Investigators were announced at NYSCF’s Ninth Annual Gala and Science Fair, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Each Investigator will...
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...
NYSCF Partners with Beyond Batten Disease Foundation to Fight Juvenile Batten Disease
NYSCF and Beyond Batten Disease Foundation (BBDF) are partnering to develop stem cell resources to investigate and explore new treatments and, ultimately, find a cure for juvenile...
NYSCF and eagle-i Network Co-Develop iPS Cell Database
Recognizing the enormous research potential of shared iPS cell lines, the NYSCF Research Institute and eagle-i Network are partnering to make NYSCF iPS cell lines and related...
First Disease-Specific Stem Cell Line by SCNT
A team of scientists led by the NYSCF Research Institute’s Dr. Dieter Egli report the first ever patient-specific, diploid (i.e. with two sets of chromosomes, the...
NYSCF-Supported ALS Research Headed to Clinical Trials
ALS research that NYSCF has supported for 8 years is now progressing to clinical trials for patients with this devastating disease. NYSCF began supporting Dr. Kevin...
NYSCF Researchers Identify New Gene Targets in Early-Onset Alzheimer’s
NYSCF scientists, in collaboration with scientists from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, successfully created and used a stem cell model of familial Alzheimer’s...
NYSCF Scientists Make Living Brain Cells From Deceased Alzheimer’s Patients Biobanked Brain Tissue
NYSCF scientists, in collaboration with scientists from Columbia University Medical Center, successfully generated induced pluripotent stem cells and, subsequently, neurons from non-cryoprotected biobanked brain tissue of...
NYSCF Collaborates With Personalgenomes.org Using Cutting-Edge Genome Sequencing and Stem Cell Science to Understand Human Disease
This exciting new collaboration combines NYSCF's stem cell expertise with Personalgenomes.org's detalied genetic and medical data to create a new and powerful tool to research disease...
NYSCF Collaborates with NIH Undiagnosed Disease Program
NYSCF announced an exciting new collaboration with the National Institutes of Health Undiagnosed Disease Program (UDP) that will lead to new strategies to find cures and...
NYSCF Scientists Find Compound To Preserve Beta Cell Function in Diabetes Model
NYSCF scientists published a paper today in the journal Diabetes on a breakthrough in diabetes research that could lead to new therapeutic approaches for patients with a...
New York Stem Cell Foundation Announces Partnership with Parkinson’s Progression Markers Initiative
At NYSCF’s Eighth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference, the CEO of the New York Stem Cell Foundation, Susan Solomon, and the CEO of The Michael...
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...
NYSCF Awards $10.5 Million to Seven NYSCF – Robertson Investigators
The New York Stem Cell Foundation named seven of the most promising scientists in the world as its 2013 NYSCF – Robertson Investigators. Each Investigator will receive a...
NYSCF Collaborates on Large Scale Alzheimer’s Research Program with Mount Sinai
Announced today, NYSCF will be the lead stem cell partner in an Alzheimer's consortia with scientists at Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and other...
NYSCF Becomes a Member of the New York Genome Center
Announced today, the New York Stem Cell Foundation is now an associate member of the New York Genome Center (NYGC) joining NYGC’s growing consortium of 16...
NYSCF Research Institute and Columbia University Researchers Use Patient-Specific Stem Cells to Identify Treatment for Diabetes
In a first for the field, NYSCF scientists with Columbia University’s Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center researchers have generated patient-specific beta cells, or insulin-producing cells, that accurately...