Honoring Innovation + Excellence

The ISSCR Awards portfolio recognizes outstanding achievements and research potential in the field of stem cell research around the world. The ISSCR awards honor scientists’ innovative work to harness the potential of stem cells, recognize exceptional research, support young researchers and the future of stem cell research and acknowledge extraordinary public service in the field.

2024 ISSCR Award Winners

Jun Wu, PhD

ISSCR Outstanding Young Investigator Award
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, USA

Recognizes the exceptional achievements of an investigator in the early part of their independent career in stem cell research.

Sergiu P. Paşca, MD

ISSCR Momentum Award
Stanford University, USA

Recognizes the exceptional achievements of a mid-career investigator whose innovative research has established a major area of stem cell-related research with a strong trajectory for future success.

Fiona M. Watt, DPhil, FRS, FMedSci

ISSCR Achievement Award
EMBL-Heidelberg, Germany

Recognizes the transformative body of work of an investigator that has had a major impact on the field of stem cell research or regenerative medicine.

The ISSCR 2024 Achievement Award is sponsored by:

Peter W. Andrews, BSc, DPhil, MBA

ISSCR Public Service Award
Joint Honoree
University of Sheffield, UK

Tenneille E. Ludwig, PhD

ISSCR Public Service Award
Joint Honoree
WiCell, USA

Recognizes outstanding contributions of public service to the fields of stem cell research and regenerative medicine. The ISSCR Board of Directors selects the Public Service Award honoree.

Past Recipients

For more than two decades, the ISSCR has recognized the outstanding achievements of stem cell researchers around the world and supported the next generation of leading scientists.

Takanori Takebe (2023)
Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins (2022)
Madeline Lancaster (2021)
Allon Klein (2020)
Barbara Treutlein (2019)
Shuibing Chen (2018)
Jayaraj Ragagopal (2017)
Fernando Camargo (2016)
Paul Tesar (2015)
Valentina Greco (2014)
Marius Wernig (2013)
Cédric Blanpain (2012)
Robert Blelloch (2011)
Joanna Wysocka (2010)
Konrad Hochedlinger (2009)
Cédric Blanpain (2023)
Joanna Wysocka (2022)
Valentina Greco (2021)
Mitinori Saitou (2020)
Thomas A. Rando (2023)
Lorenz Studer (2022)
Janet Rossant (2021)
Fred H. Gage (2020)
Christine L. Mummery (2023)
Sean J. Morrison (2022)
Robin Lovell-Badge (2021)
Susan L. Solomon (2020)
Eli and Edythe Broad (2019)
Megan Munsie (2018)
George Q. Daley (2017)
Alan Trounson (2016)
Paolo Bianco(2014) Co-Winner
Elena Cattaneo(2014) Co-Winner
Michele De Luca(2014) Co-Winner
Hiromitsu Ogawa and Betty Jean Crouch Ogawa (2013)
Rob and Cheryl McEwen (2012)
Robert Klein (2011)

The 2023 Annual Meeting Awards

Each year the ISSCR recognizes the significant research and achievements of scientists early in their career. Merit awards are given in recognition of exemplary abstracts; travel awards recognize scientific excellence. Congratulations to the 2023 award winners. More information about the 2024 Annual Meeting awards is available here.

Poster Awardees

Alexander Atamian
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Poster Title: GENERATION OF FUNCTIONAL CEREBELLAR ORGANOIDS FROM HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS

Chloe Baron
Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA
Poster Title: CELLULAR BARCODING OF THE LEUKEMIC NICHE REVEALS AN APELIN-MEDIATED CLONAL EXPANSION OF NICHE ENDOTHELIAL AND MESENCHYMAL STROMAL CELLS

Caroline Beyer
Max Delbruck Center for Molecular Medicine, Berlin, Germany
Poster Title: NEUROMUSCULAR ORGANOIDS AS A UNIQUE MODEL TO STUDY NEUROMUSCULAR INJURY AND REGENERATION IN VITRO

Noelia Anton-Bolanos
Harvard University, Boston, USA
Poster Title: MULTIDONOR HUMAN CORTICAL CHIMEROIDS REVEAL INDIVIDUAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TO NEUROTOXIC TRIGGERS

Waseem Nasser
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel
Poster Title: POINT MUTATION IN P63 LEADS TO STEM CELL FAILURE THAT CAN BE RESCUED BY A SMALL MOLECULAR WEIGHT COMPOUND

Merit Awardees

Wardiya Afshar-Saber

Kevin Allan

Thomas Ambrosi

Troy Anderson

Cheen Euong Ang

Toshikazu Araoka

Ulgu Arslan

Alexander Atamian

Chloe Baron

Samantha Barton

Caroline Beyer

Emiliano Bolesani

Gabriele Casirati

Gabriele Ciceri

Joseph Collins

Maud Debaugnies

Ruochen Dong

Anna Dowbaj

Timothy Duerr

Clayton Friedman

Yuya Fujiwara

Caterina Gasperini

Joshua Gershlak

Brandon Gheller

Adhideb Ghosh

Elisa Giacomelli

Lingli He

Yasuaki Iwama

Debabrata Jana

Jonathan Jung

Kajal Kamat

Rowan Karvas

Taewan Kim

Moyra Lawrence

Li Li

Huanhuan Li

Kyungtae Lim

Yuxin Luo

Jeru Manuel

Silvia Marchiano

Waseem Nasser

Jitesh Neupane

Miguel Ortiz Salazar

ChanWook Park

Raquel Pérez Fernández

Qian Hua Phua

Roberta Ragazzini

Foad Rouhani

Jasper Rubin-Sigler

Serena Scala

Kritika Sharma

Minkyoung Shin

Johanna Siehler

Enakshi Sinniah

Dylan Siriwardena

Jan Sokol

Edoardo Sozzi

Qi Sun

Daisylyn Senna Tan

Daniel Tavakol

Larissa Traxler

Matheus Victor

Ryan Walsh

Bryan Wang

Nathan Wang

Mengting Wang

Chen Weng

Yi-Hsuan Wu

Atilgan Yilmaz

Zhen Sun

Travel Awardees