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We are very sad to share the news of the passing of Professor Roger Pedersen, a pioneering stem cell researcher whose vision and hard work was instrumental in creating the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute.Before coming to Cambridge in the early 2000s, Roger’s illustrious career had established him as a preeminent developmental biologist and stem cell …

We’re celebrating the success of Cambridge Stem Cell Institute members who were recognised at the Cambridge Awards for Research Impact and Engagement ceremony earlier this week.Dr Kirsty Ferguson, Research Associate in the Philpott Group, was awarded runner-up in the 'Early Career Researcher' category for work to embed engagement in her childhood c…

The Wellcome Trust has recently announced that Professor Bertie Göttgens and Professor Elisa Laurenti have been granted a £3.75M Wellcome Discovery Award for their research, ‘Haematopoiesis across Scales, Species and Time: a Foundational Approach to Study Stem Cell Biology and Disease.’ Wellcome Discovery Awards provide funding for established rese…

This week marks a milestone for the Human Cell Atlas project, a consortium of researchers co-led by CSCI's Professor Sarah Teichmann and Dr Aviv Regev of Genentech. A collection of 13 papers in Nature have been published this week revealing data from embryonic, fetal and paediatric organs, as well as computational tools, which provide a foundation …

It was announced this week that Dr Maria Alcolea is one of 57 new awardees for the European Research Council Synergy Grants. These grants are part of the EU’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme, and are designed to foster collaboration between researchers to pursue new and ground-breaking research. Dr Alcolea will be working alongside…

Professor David Rowitch, Head of the Department of Paediatrics at the University of Cambridge, has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Medicine in the USA.“It is a great honour to have been elected to the National Academy of Medicine,”  said Professor Rowitch.Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honours in the fi…

We welcomed a total of 26 Postgraduate students to CSCI in October 2024, under the supervision of 14 PIs within the Institute.These students are on a variety of PhD and Masters programmes, and are based in the following labs:Wellcome MRes + PhD Programme (currently doing rotations): 6 studentsAlcolea Group – 1 x PhD StudentBarker Group – 1 x PhD St…

For the first time, researchers have created a single cell atlas of prenatal human skin to understand how skin forms, and what goes wrong in disease.CSCI’s Professor Sarah Teichmann and Affiliate PI Professor Muzlifah Haniffa, with researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, Newcastle University and their collaborators used single cell sequenci…

Scientists have developed a pioneering method to culture marmoset placental cells in the lab, offering new insights into embryo implantation. Unlike human embryos, which implant deeply into the uterus, marmoset embryos undergo a much shallower implantation. This research opens up new avenues for understanding the mechanisms that regulate implantati…

Researchers at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and University of Cambridge have discovered a way to extend the 'shelf life' of blood stem cells outside the body for use in gene therapy, providing patients with better treatment options and improving their outcomes. The research, published today (15 August) in Bloodfrom scientists in the Laurenti G…

Global life sciences leader Cytiva recently established a footprint in the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre (JCBC) on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, further developing relationships with the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI) and the Milner Therapeutics Institute (MTI). These organisations are part of a thriving ecosystem of scientific research …

Today (1 July 2024) marks the official start of the Discovery Research Platform for Tissue Scale Biology (DRP-TSB) at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute. With funding from Wellcome, the platform will work over the next seven years to drive new waves of discovery and translational science into the ways stem cells build, maintain and repair all our ti…

This month, the Institute held the CSCI Annual Retreat on 6 and 7 June in Cambridge.This annual event brings together CSCI researchers, Affiliate Group Leaders, and our Stem Cells Interdisciplinary Research Centre members for a day and a half of talks, posters, Institute updates, and networking outside of the office and labs. This year also feature…

Scientists in Cambridge and London have discovered novel immune responses that help explain how some individuals avoid getting COVID-19. Using single-cell sequencing, researchers from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, University College London (UCL) and Imperial College London (ICL), the Netherlands Cancer Institute and their collaborators, studied im…

Epigenetic changes to DNA help explain differences in disease severity in patientsCambridge scientists from the Zilbauer Lab at Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI) have grown ‘mini-guts’ in the lab to help understand Crohn’s disease, showing that ‘switches’ that modify DNA in gut cells play an important role in the disease and how it presents in p…