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Professors Göttgens and Laurenti to receive a new Wellcome Discovery Award

27 November 2024

The Wellcome Trust has recently announced that Professor Bertie Göttgens and Professor Elisa Laurenti have been granted a £3.75M Wellcome Discovery Award for their research, ‘ Haematopoiesis across Scales, Species and Time: a Foundational Approach to Study Stem Cell Biology and Disease.’ Wellcome Discovery Awards provide...

Human Cell Atlas makes major strides in mapping human body

21 November 2024

This week marks a milestone for the Human Cell Atlas project, a consortium of researchers co-led by CSCI's Professor Sarah Teichmann and Dr Aviv Regev of Genentech. A collection of 13 papers in Nature have been published this week revealing data from embryonic, fetal and paediatric organs, as well as computational tools...

Dr Maria Alcolea awarded ERC Synergy Grant

7 November 2024

It was announced this week that Dr Maria Alcolea is one of 57 new awardees for the European Research Council Synergy Grants. These grants are part of the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, and are designed to foster collaboration between researchers to pursue new and ground-breaking research. Dr Alcolea...

CSCI's Professor David Rowitch elected to US National Academy of Medicine

30 October 2024

Professor David Rowitch, Head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in the USA. “It is a great honour to have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine,” said Professor Rowitch. Election to the Academy is considered one of...

CSCI welcomes 2024 cohort of postgraduate students

29 October 2024

We welcomed a total of 26 Postgraduate students to CSCI in October 2024, under the supervision of 14 PIs within the Institute. These students are on a variety of PhD and Masters programmes, and are based in the following labs: Wellcome MRes + PhD Programme (currently doing rotations): 6 students Alcolea Group – 1 x PhD...

Human skin map gives ‘recipe’ to build skin and could help prevent scarring in new research from the Teichmann Lab

16 October 2024

For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease. CSCI’s Professor Sarah Teichmann and Affiliate PI Professor Muzlifah Haniffa , with researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Newcastle University and their...

Marmoset trophoblast stem cells model shallow embryo implantation

4 October 2024

Scientists have developed a pioneering method to culture marmoset placental cells in the lab, offering new insights into embryo implantation. Unlike human embryos, which implant deeply into the uterus, marmoset embryos undergo a much shallower implantation. This research opens up new avenues for understanding the...

Laurenti Lab finds new way to extend ‘shelf life’ of blood stem cells to improve gene therapy

15 August 2024

Researchers at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and University of Cambridge have discovered a way to extend the 'shelf life' of blood stem cells outside the body for use in gene therapy, providing patients with better treatment options and improving their outcomes. T he research, published today (15 August) in Blood from...

Cambridge Biomedical Campus welcomes SCI-TIF member Cytiva at JCBC

29 July 2024

Global life sciences leader Cytiva recently established a footprint in the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus , further developing relationships with the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI) and the Milner Therapeutics Institute (MTI). These organisations are part of a thriving...

Launch of Discovery Research Platform for Tissue Scale Biology

1 July 2024

Today (1 July 2024) marks the official start of the Discovery Research Platform for Tissue Scale Biology (DRP-TSB) at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. With funding from Wellcome, the platform will work over the next seven years to drive new waves of discovery and translational science into the ways stem cells build...