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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 …

Two of the UK’s largest funders of medical research are to invest £8 million in a new world-leading centre for stem cell biology and medicine.The Wellcome Trust-Medical Research Council Cambridge Stem Cell Institute will advance our understanding of stem cells and their potential to treat a range of life-threatening conditions that currently have n…

The 2nd International Cambridge Stem Cell SymposiumThe Symposium took place in July at the Homerton College. It brought together world-leading scientists working on different aspects of cancer initiation, maintenance and recurrence. The meeting covered the latest findings in stem cell biology and cancer, including novel techniques in tracking the c…

Hiro Nakauchi obtained his M.D. from Yokohama City University School of Medicine and a Ph.D. in immunology from University of Tokyo Graduate School of Medicine.  He isolated CD8 genes during his post-doc period at the Laboratory of Prof. Leonard Herzenberg, Stanford University. After coming back to Japan, he started working on hematopoietic stem ce…

A collaboration between two EuropeanCommission projects, HEROIC and EuroSyStem, has cast new light on the study of embryonic stem (ES) cells. The research was led by HEROIC coordinator Professor Henk Stunnenberg, and EuroSyStem coordinator and SCI Director Professor Austin Smith.You can read the article here: Marks et al., The Transcriptional and E…

Cambridge research that created liver cells from stem cells has today been recognised with a national prize by the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs).Producing liver cells that demonstrate inherited liver diseases from human skin cells has earned Dr Ludovic Vallier from the University of Cam…