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This month the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Technology & Innovation Forum (SCI-TIF) gathered to celebrate their 2nd Annual Networking Dinner.SCI-TIF members, CSCI Principal Investigators, and Stem Cell Interdisciplinary Research Centre members got together at SIX Restaurant at the Varsity to meet, discuss potential collaborations, and enjoy the wa…

Recently the CSCI PhD and MPhil students got together for their annual Postgraduate Away Day for a day of talks, brainstorming sessions, and a pub quiz. The event, planned by the student committee, took place on 25 April. The 25 new students from the October 2023 intake (pictured) under the supervision of 16 different PIs, were joined by several sp…

Researchers at CSCI and University of Cambridge have created the world’s largest catalogue of human breast cells, which has revealed early cell changes in healthy carriers of BRCA1 and BRCA2 gene mutations.The study, published today (28 March) in the journal Nature Genetics from researchers in the Khaled Group in the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (…

This week (Monday 18 March), members of the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, the Technology and Innovation Forum (SCI-TIF) and guests from around Cambridge convened to delve into the pressing subject of AI’s role in advancing stem cell research and medicine. The event began with a welcome by Institute’s director, Professor Bertie Göttgens, who set th…

Research published this week in Science Advances by Dr Shota Nakanoh in a collaboration between Dr Teresa Rayon’s lab at the Institute and Professor Ludovic Vallier’s lab at the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute has determined that the degree of cell crowding in the early human embryo influences whether cells develop as extra-embryonic cel…

Professor Walid Khaled from CSCI and co-leader Dr Laura Greaves from Newcastle have received UKRI funding for research on age-related biological changes in model organisms as part of a national collaboration.UKRI funding of £3 million is awarded today (12 February) to support a new research cluster as part of the MRC National Mouse Genetics Network…

This Tuesday (6 February), our Cambridge Stem Cell Institute Technology & Innovation Forum (SCI-TIF) and Institute researchers participated in our first SCI-TIF event of 2024, highlighting collaboration between industry and academia. The event started with an introduction from CSCI Director Bertie Gottgens, then introduced flash talks from three of…

On World Cancer Day yesterday (4 February), Blood Cancer UK and the American charity Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) announced the start of a transformative five-year, £4 million research project in Cambridge, spearheaded by CSCI’s Professor George Vassiliou. The project aims to establish a clinical platform to identify individuals at high risk o…

Large-scale genetic analysis has helped researchers uncover the interplay between cancer-driving genetic mutations and inherited genetic variants in a rare type of blood cancer. Researchers from the Wellcome-MRC Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Wellcome Sanger Institute, the University of Cambridge, and collaborators combined various comprehensive da…

A new collaborative paper from the Göttgens, Kranc and O’Carroll groups reports the first model of homeostatic in vivo tissue dynamics that is anchored in single cell genomics data in the Cell Stem Cell publication out last week (5 January). In time series measurements extending over 9 months, the Kranc Group (Institute of Cancer Research, London) …

On Friday 8 December, CSCI PI Kostantinos Tzelepis presented his research at the Annual American Society of Hematology (ASH) Meeting in San Diego, USA. This presentation focused on the pre-clinical development and characterisation of the first-in-class METTL1 RNA Methyltransferase inhibitor, a totally novel anticancer therapeutic for various aggres…

On Friday 1 December, CSCI celebrated our second annual Christmas Market at the Jeffrey Cheah Biomedical Centre. Partnering with our neighbours at Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute and Cambridge Biomedical Campus, and with volunteers from The Milner Therapeutics Institute and Cambridge Institute of Therapeutic Immunology & Infectious Disease, …

It was announced today that Dr Alecia-Jane Twigger has been awarded a UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship. These Fellowships are awarded by UKRI to support universities and businesses in developing their most talented early career researchers and innovators. Dr Twigger, a Research Associate in Professor Walid Khaled’s lab at…

Last week, the journal Leukemia announced CSCI PI Dr Konstantinos Tzelepis as one of three Emerging Leaders in Leukemia. The Nature Publishing Group journal’s Emerging Leaders collection selects rising talent in the field of haematology, providing a spotlight so they can share their work with others. Kostas and his group at CSCI are currently focus…

It was announced today (18 October) that Dr Sarah Teichmann and her group will join the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute (CSCI)Sarah will be moving from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, where she has been heading the Cellular Genetics programme. Sarah is a highly distinguished computational biologist, and co-lead of the international Human Cell Atlas in…