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...
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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...
NYSCF Scientists Create Human Bone from Skin Cells
In a step towards personalized bone grafts to treat traumatic injury or congenital defects, a study, led by Darja Marolt, PhD, and Giuseppe Maria de Peppo, PhD, and published in...
NYSCF Lab Director Joins International Group to Find Alzheimer’s Cure
Dr. Scott Noggle, Director of the NYSCF Lab and the NYSCF – Charles Evans Senior Research Fellow for Alzheimer's Disease, and his research team are collaborating...
NYSCF Researcher Brings Us Closer to Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease
NYSCF scientist Mike Nestor, PhD, with a team of fellow NYSCF researchers developed a new technique that enables scientists to better image living neurons made from...
NYSCF Scientists Develop, Optimize Stem Cell Derivation Technique for the Clinic
A team of New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Research Institute scientists led by David Kahler, PhD, NYSCF Director of Laboratory Automation, have developed a new...
NYSCF Researcher Brings Us Closer to Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease
NYSCF scientist Mike Nestor, PhD, with a team of fellow NYSCF researchers developed a new technique that enables scientists to better image living neurons made from...
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,...
NYSCF Investigators Link Epigenetic Changes to Disease
Blood and immune stem cells, as they age, lose some to all of their function, which increases our predisposition to devastating diseases like leukemia. NYSCF –...
Stem Cells Provide Insight into ALS
Subtle yet important, the interactions between motor neurons with neighboring cell types contribute to the pathologies of ALS (or Lou Gehrig’s disease), specifically motor neuron death....
NYSCF Researchers Develop Scientific Technique to Help Prevent Mitochondrial Disease
A joint team of scientists from The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) and Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) has developed a technique that may prevent...
NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon Honored with Stem Cell Action Leadership Award
On December 4, NYSCF CEO Susan L. Solomon was honored at the World Stem Cell Summit with the 2012 Stem Cell Action Leadership Award. Annually since...
NYSCF Awards $9 Million to Six New Robertson Investigators
The New York Stem Cell Foundation named six of the most promising scientists as its 2012 NYSCF – Robertson Investigators. Each Investigator will receive a $1.5 million...
Stem Cell Pioneer Kazutoshi Takahashi Recipient of Second NYSCF – Robertson Prize
Today, The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) will award a Japanese scientist with the NYSCF – Robertson Prize for his extraordinary achievements in translational stem...
NYSCF Scientists Featured at Alzheimer’s Association International Conference For New Alzheimer’s Disease Model
A team of scientists at The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Laboratory led by Scott Noggle, PhD, NYSCF–Charles Evans Senior Research Fellow for Alzheimer’s Disease,...
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...
New York Stem Cell Foundation Scientist Grows Bone From Human Embryonic Stem Cells
NEW YORK, NY (May 14, 2012) — Dr. Darja Marolt, an Investigator at The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) Laboratory, is lead author on a...
TIME Magazine Names New York Stem Cell Foundation Research #1 Medical Breakthrough of 2011
Discovery Hailed As Step Toward Patient-Specific Treatments for Diabetes, Other Degenerative Diseases NEW YORK, NY (December 9, 2011) – TIME magazine has designated research conducted in the...
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...
NYSCF Announces New Collaboration to Study Cord Blood
New York Stem Cell Foundation Scientists to Use Stem Cell Technology to Develop Treatments for Diseases, Increase Blood Supply in Collaboration with New York Blood Center, Duke’s Carolinas...
British Scientist Working To Cure Common Form Of Blindness Named Recipient Of Inaugural NYSCF – Robertson Prize In Stem Cell Research
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) announced today that Dr. Peter J. Coffey, a British stem cell scientist working to cure blindness, will be the...
NYSCF Awards $10.5 Million to Seven New Investigators
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) today named seven of the nation’s most promising young scientists as its 2011 class of NYSCF – Robertson Investigators. ...
Scientists at New York Stem Cell Foundation, Columbia U. Make Advance in Development of Patient-Specific Stem Cells
As reported on October 5th in Nature, for the first time scientists have derived embryonic stem cells from individual patients by adding the nuclei of adult...
NYSCF Convenes Sixth Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference
National and international leaders in translational stem cell research will present their latest research findings on how advances in stem cell science will eventually lead to...
The New York Stem Cell Foundation Applauds Lifting of Ban on Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research
The New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF) applauds the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia’s decision to dismiss District Court Judge Royce Lamberth’s...