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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…

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 in the non-fiction poetry cat…

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 signals, enabling vision, sensat…

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 features more than 2,000 abstr…

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 biomedical research. They are awarde…

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 paper that is judged by the E…

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-projects/Awards-made/wtvm054834.…

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 Gurdon. Aliaksandra is a PhD stu…

Dr Jennifer Nichols was one of twelve women honoured for their outstanding contributions to science at Suffrage Science: 2013. This year focused on women in engineering and the physical sciences related to medicine.Descendants of suffragette leader Emmeline Pankhurst, great-granddaughter Helen and her daughter Laura, presented the women with bespok…

The Wellcome Trust - MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute will participate with two events at the 2013 University of Cambridge Science Festival.As a part of the Science on Saturday programme, the SCI is arranging Stem Cell Generation - a hands on, drop in event for all ages in the Biology Zone at the Arts School. Everyone is welcome to visit between 1…

Professor Bertie Gottgens and his team of researchers have been awarded a grant of £1.3m by the blood cancer charity Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research for a new research programme which they hope will lead to the discovery of new treatments that will help rewire the faulty ‘switches’ that inadvertently cause the most common aggressive leukaemia in the …