News

Check out Austin Smith's interview for the Scientific Council - Stem Cells.  The interview was conducted by Mariana Alves, a summer student from the Silva Lab.To listen to the interview, please here click

Morteza Jalali, a clinical PhD student in the Vallier lab has signed a contract with Elsevier for a book on basic science research methods aimed at students and clinicians who are embarking on laboratory-based science.There is a global move towards recruiting and training future clinician scientists, such that medicine and surgery are equipped to h…

Development journal have published a meeting report of the Institute's 5th Cambridge Stem Cell Symposium on 18th -19th July 2016.Entitled 'Quantitative Stem Cell Biology: from Molecules to Models' the meeting was hosted by Dr Elisa Laurenti, Dr Paul Bertone and Professor Azim Surani and aimed to tackle some of the issues around quantitative data pr…

Dish Life, the final of four Cambridge Shorts films, compares the task of raising stem cells in the lab to the challenge of looking after a gang of unruly kids. In conversation with real-life children, scientists show how tricky it is to work with these ‘super cells’.Loriana Vitillo from CSCI and Karen Jent from the Department of Sociology worked t…

Congratulations to SCI PI Jenny Nichols on her thoroughly deserved promotion to Reader. Also to SCI PI Jose Silva who has been promoted to Principal Research Associate.

This year, SCI PI, Professor Bertie Gottgens, as well as Affiliate PIs, Dr Philip Jones and Dr Douglas Winton were awarded.Academy Fellows are elected for excellence in medical research, for innovative application of scientific knowledge or for their conspicuous service to healthcare.The new Fellows will be formally admitted to the Academy at a cer…

33 organisations across Europe, led by the Wellcome Trust, published a joint “Statement Supporting Funding for Stem Cell and Reproductive Health Research in Europe”.The statement calls for current provisions that allow for the funding of all types of stem cell research - including human embryonic stem cell research - to be maintained in the EU's re…

Dr Nicholas Hannan, Research Associate in Vallier Lab was shortlisted to appear in Parliament as part of SET for Britain on Monday, 17th March.Nick’s poster will present his research on using stem cell therapies for cystic fibrosis and will be judged against dozens of other scientists’ research in the only national competition of its kind.The resea…

Stem cells to fight brain diseases say Cambridge scientistsWritten by ELEANOR DICKINSONSufferers of serious brain diseases could one day be helped by stem cell treatments, according to scientists at Cambridge University.Scientists at the University hope to be able to use the regenerative power of stem cells to treat major brain conditions such as P…

Three Korean immunologists, Dr Kim, Dr Park and Dr Jang were in the SCI last week, visiting Dr Bon-Kyoung Koo’s lab. They have visited for 3 days to learn about intestinal organoid culture for studying immune-gut interaction.On this occasion and to provide more information on the current status of organoid cultures, it was organised as a seminar wi…

A consortium of 10 European partners have been awarded €6million by the European Commission for a research and development project focused on directing stem cells to become bone and muscle.Pluripotent stem cells have the potential to generate any type of cell found in the body. They are generated and multiplied in the laboratory. By harnessing the …

Professor Azim Surani has been awarded the 2014 McEwen Award for Innovation by the International Society for Stem Cell Research. The McEwen Award for Innovation, supported by the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, recognizes original thinking and ground-breaking research pertaining to stem cells or regenerative medicine that opens new avenues…

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 thick.The Cambridge team wi…

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 Head of Translational Scie…

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 to messenger RNA. The HAE…