ISSCR Poster Awards

Each year at the annual meeting, the ISSCR presents awards to numerous Associate Members eligible for Poster Awards. Winners receive a $250 stipend, a one-year subscription to Cell Stem Cell and Current Protocols in Stem Cell Research, and complimentary registration to ISSCR's annual meeting the following year.  The ISSCR congratulates the 2012 ISSCR Poster Award winners who were selected from 957 eligible abstracts on display in Yokohama, Japan at the ISSCR 10th Annual Meeting:

2012 Junior Investigator Poster Awards

Vishal Deshmukh
The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA
Oligodendrocyte precursor cell differentiation inducing factors as a regenerative therapy for multiple sclerosis.

Jieun Lee
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Activation of innate immunity is required for efficient nuclear reprogramming.

Yoshiko Matsumoto
Keio University, Tokyo, Japan
EP4 receptor-dependent direct and independent indirect effects of prostaglandin E2 in the regulation of adult hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells.

Sonia Mulero-Navarro
Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY, USA
Abnormalities in Noonan syndrome and Noonan/JMML human iPS-derived hematopoietic cells.

Dongsu Park
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA
In vivo tracking of the role of endogenous bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells.

Yonatan Stelzer
The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
Genome-wide gene expression and DNA methylation analyses of parental imprinting in human parthenogenetic iPS cells.

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2011 Winners

Eric Lehman
University Health Network, Toronto
MIR-126 BIOACTIVITY MARKS THE PRIMITIVE COMPARTMENT OF AML AND REGULATES HUMAN LEUKEMIA STEM CELL NUMBERS

Pulin Li
Children's Hospital Boston
EPOXYEICOSATRIENOIC ACIDS REGULATE HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELL SELF-RENEWAL DURING STRESS RESPONSE AND EMBRYONIC HEMATOPOIESIS

Shyh-Chang Ng
Harvard Medical School
THE LIN28-LET7 AXIS REGULATES EMBRYONIC AND ADULT GLUCOSE METABOLISM IN MAMMALS

Satoshi Nori
Keio University School of Medicine
TRANSPLANTATION OF HUMAN IPS CELL-DERIVED NEUROSPHERES FOR THE TREATMENT OF SPINAL CORD INJURY IN NOD-SCID MICE

Peter van Galen
Ontario Cancer Institute/University Health Network, Toronto
IDENTIFICATION OF HUMAN STEM CELL REGULATORS THROUGH HIGH-THROUGHPUT FUNCTIONAL SCREENS

Cong Xu
Children's Hospital Boston
NANOG REGULATES ENDODERM FORMATION THROUGH THE MXTX2-NODAL PATHWAY

2011 SLAS Poster Winner

In addition, SLAS, the Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening, awarded one of their Young Scientist Poster Awards, which consists of a $500 stipend, travel and accommodations to the SLAS 2012 Meeting in San Diego, February 4 – 8, and the opportunity to present their poster at their meeting.  Congratulations to the following ISSCR Junior Investigator:

Brian Cox
The Hospital for Sick Children Research Institute
IDENTIFICATION OF MOUSE STEM CELL-SURFACE PROTEINS ENABLES ISOLATION OF LINEAGE PROGENITOR CELLS DIRECTLY FROM THE MOUSE BLASTOCYST USING FLOW CYTOMETRY

 

2010 Winners

Rebecca A. Ihrie
University of California, San Francisco
HEDGEHOG SIGNALING SPECIFIES FATE IN ADULT NEURAL STEM CELLS

Lucy Erin O’Brien
University of California, Berkeley
ADAPTIVE GROWTH OF THE ADULT DROSOPHILA INTESTINE VIA INSULIN-STIMULATED MIDGUT STEM CELL PROLIFERATION

Thomas Vierbuchen
Stanford Medical School
DIRECT CONVERSION OF FIBROBLASTS TO FUNCTIONAL NEURONS BY DEFINED FACTORS

Meritxell Huch Ortega
Hubrecht Institute for Developmental Biology and Stem Cell Research
MOUSE AND HUMAN LGR5 GASTRIC STEM CELLS GENERATE IN VITRO LONG-TERM GASTRIC EPITHELIAL UNITS IN THE ABSENCE OF A NON-EPITHELIAL NICHE

Dung-Fang Lee
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
DISSECTING PHOSPHORYLATION MECHANISMS GOVERNING EMBRYONIC STEM CELL IDENTITY

Dominic Jian-Chien Heng
Genome Institute of Singapore
THE NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NR5A2 CAN REPLACE OCT4 IN THE REPROGRAMMING OF MURINE SOMATIC CELLS TO PLURIPOTENT CELLS