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Professor Tony Green awarded £2.6 million pound grant by Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research

24 November 2016

Professor Tony Green is leading the five-year programme to help increase understanding of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPNs). MPNs are a group of blood disorders related to leukaemia that cause the normal regulation of blood cell production to break down, which creates too many blood cells and means the blood can become...

Robin Franklin appointed Professor of Stem Cell Medicine

22 November 2016

Robin Franklin has been appointed Professor of Stem Cell Medicine with effect from 1st January 2014. Professor Franklin, who is currently in the Veterinary School in West Cambridge, will be moving to the School of Clinical Medicine on the Biomedical Campus as part of the new professorship. A key part of his role will be as...

SCI Bioinformatics Core contributes to new genome-scale resource

22 November 2016

SCI core bioinformaticians Patrick Lombard and Lila Diamanti have contributed to the creation of HAEMCODE, a large scale repository for transcription factor binding maps in mouse blood cells. Transcription factors are proteins that bind to specific DNA sequences, thereby controlling the flow of genetic information from DNA...

SCI members win EuroStemCell writing competition prizes

22 November 2016

We are delighted to announce that two SCI members won awards in the EuroStemCell non-fiction writing competition. Naomi Moris, PhD student in Martinez-Arias group, is the winner in the graphic non-fiction category. Helene Gautier, Research Associate working with Thora Karadottir and Robin Franklin, is the first runner up...

Prof. Robin Franklin leads new study on MS treatments

22 November 2016

Multiple sclerosis treatments that repair damage to the brain could be developed thanks to new research. A study has shed light on how cells are able to regenerate protective sheaths around nerve fibres in the brain. These sheaths, made up of a substance called myelin, are critical for the quick transmission of nerve...

ISSCR Annual Meeting

22 November 2016

The ISSCR's flagship meeting serves as the largest forum for stem cell and regenerative medicine professionals from around the world. Through lectures, symposia, workshops, and events attendees experience innovative stem cell and regenerative medicine research, advances and learn about what's on the horizon.The meeting...

Bon-Kyoung Koo awarded Sir Henry Dale Fellowship

22 November 2016

The SCI's new Group Leader Bon-Kyoung Koo has been awarded a prestigious Sir Henry Dale Fellowship . The Fellowship brings together the Royal Society and the Wellcome Trust, two of the world's most prestigious and influential scientific organisations, in their shared commitment to supporting the future leaders of...

SCI student wins Journal of Cell Science 2012 'paper of the year' award

22 November 2016

Vincent Pasque and Aliaksandra Radzisheuskaya received the prize for their joint first-author paper entitled ‘ Histone variant macroH2A marks embryonic differentiation in vivo and acts as an epigenetic barrier to induced pluripotency ’ (Pasque et al., 2012). The prize, $1000, is awarded annually to the first author of the...

Professor Rick Livesey receives Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award

22 November 2016

Investigator Awards provide funding for scientists who have an excellent track record and are in an established academic post. They offer the flexibility and time to enable them to tackle the most important questions in their field. For more information see http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/Funding/Biomedical-science/Funded-...

SCI Student wins Outstanding Poster Award

22 November 2016

Aliaksandra Radzisheuskaya won the outstanding poster award for her work on the role of Oct4 during reprogramming at the CiRA International Symposium 2013 “Raising the next generation of stem cell research” in Kyoto, Japan. The award ceremony was presented by the Nobel laureates Professor Shinya Yamanaka and Sir John...

Professor Tony Green awarded £2.6 million pound grant by Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research

Robin Franklin appointed Professor of Stem Cell Medicine

SCI Bioinformatics Core contributes to new genome-scale resource

SCI members win EuroStemCell writing competition prizes

Prof. Robin Franklin leads new study on MS treatments

ISSCR Annual Meeting

Bon-Kyoung Koo awarded Sir Henry Dale Fellowship

SCI student wins Journal of Cell Science 2012 'paper of the year' award

Professor Rick Livesey receives Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award

SCI Student wins Outstanding Poster Award

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