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New article from SCI Affiliate Christine Watson's Lab published in Nature Communications describes a ground-breaking project which tracked the fate of ‘daughter cells’ to find out how cancer moves around the breast from a single stem cell.The cells of the breast undergo a massive expansion during puberty and with every pregnancy, a process that req…

Interview with Rick Livesey about his stem cell 'mini brains' that can help researchers study the progression of Alzheimer's disease in the Sunday Express.

The Cambridge Stem Cell Institute is proud to announce that we have received an Athena SWAN Bronze Award for our commitment to equality. The awards recognise commitment to advancing women’s careers in science, technology, engineering, maths and medicine in higher education and research.Learn more about Athena SWAN here.

This year, SCI PI, Professor Roger Barker was one of the five Cambridge researchers awarded.The Academy of Medical Sciences promotes advances in medical science and campaigns to ensure these are translated into benefits for patients. The Academy’s Fellows are the United Kingdom’s leading medical scientists from hospitals, academia, industry and the…

SCI Group Leader Dr Ragnhildur Thóra Káradóttir has received a Lister Research Prize for her work on the role of neuronal activity in myelin repair.The Lister Institute Research Prize Fellowships are one-off awards which seek to help support and nurture future leaders of biomedical research. The Fellowships offer a fantastic opportunity for recipie…

A protein activated by vitamin D could be involved in repairing damage to myelin in people with multiple sclerosis (MS), according to new research from the University of Cambridge. The study, published in the Journal of Cell Biology, offers significant evidence that vitamin D could be a possible treatment for MS in the future.This work provides sig…

The Stem Cell Institute is proud to welcome two new Principal Investigators, Maria Alcolea and Joo-Hyeon Lee, both of whom have taken up their first independent group leader positions here at SCI. Dr Maria Alcolea Dr Joo-Hyeon Lee Dr. Alcolea is a cell biologist who has focused on understanding the behaviour of stem and progenitor cells using the m…

The new building, sited at the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, will allow all Stem Cell Institute groups to be work together in one place. The added advantage of being based at the hospital site will allow for greater collaboration between scientists and clinicians and further advance the application of stem cell discoveries into the patient setting.B…

SCI PhD student Abdulrahim Sajini is taking part in the Judge Business School’s Accelerate Cambridge entrepreneurship programme to develop his idea for Kandlelit, a visual search engine for researchers.Accelerate Cambridge helps Cambridge researchers develop their ideas through an intensive programme of mentoring and training.  The scheme puts part…

Professor Austin Smith has been awarded the 2016 McEwen Award for Innovation by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) This year the McEwen Award for Innovation was jointly awarded to Professor Austin Smith and Qi-Long Ying, PhD, University of Southern California and will be presented at the ISSCR 2016 Annual Meeting, 22nd -25th J…

The 5th Cambridge Stem Cell International Symposium will be hosted by Dr Elisa Laurenti, Dr Paul Bertone and Professor Azim Surani.The title of this year's conference is "Quantitative Stem Cell Biology: From Molecules to Models" and is being held at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, on 18 & 19 July 2016.All delegates will need to register and plac…

Researchers from the Stem Cell Institute (Ghevaert and Pedersen Groups), NHS Blood and Transplant and the University of Cambridge have developed an innovative method of producing the precursors of platelets (megakaryocytes) and platelets themselves from human stem cells. The study, published in Nature Communications, was supported by a grant from t…

MRC 'Skills Development Fellowships' are aimed at postdoctoral researchers at any career stage:to develop new skills in mathematics/statistics/computation/informatics applicable to any biomedical or health-related data sources (for biomedical/healthcare researchers)to apply quantitative methods to biomedical and/or health research across MRC’s remi…

Robin Franklin, Professor of Stem Cell Medicine and Deputy Director of the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, is one of the 47 world leading UK researchers elected to the Fellowship of the Academy of Medical Sciences.The Fellows have been elected for their contribution to medical research and healthcare, the generation of new knowledge in medical scien…

Today marks the release of an exciting new online course, created by the International Society of Experimental Haematology (ISEH), to teach the basics of blood stem cell biology – Haematology 101.The release begins today with a blog post, written by course Director and CSCI Principal Investigator, Dr David Kent and is accompanied by the first insta…