Poster Awards

Each year at the annual meeting, the ISSCR presents Poster Awards to trainee members selected from over 700 eligible posters. The winners receive a $250.00 stipend, a one-year subscription to Cell Stem Cell and Current Protocols in Stem Cell Biology, and complimentary registration to ISSCR's annual meeting the following year. Poster Awards will resume at the ISSCR 2022 Annual Meeting in San Francisco, 15-18 June.

Past Winners

  • 2019 Poster Awards

    Vincenzo Calvanese
    University of California Los Angeles
    Poster Title: MAPPING THE EMERGENCE AND MIGRATION OF HEMATOPOIETIC STEM CELLS AND PROGENITORS DURING HUMAN DEVELOPMENT AT SINGLE CELL RESOLUTION

    Jan Zylicz
    Institute Curie and University of Cambridge
    Poster Title: XIST-RNA AS THE ARCHITECT FOR CHROMATIN AND TRANSCRIPTIONAL CHANGES ALONG THE INACTIVATING X-CHROMOSOME

    Siddharth Kishore
    University of Pennsylvania
    Poster Title: ROR? REGULATION OF HUMAN PANCREAS DEVELOPMENT REVEALED BY A DISEASE MODIFYING SNP IN GATA6 MUTANT PATIENT IPSCS

    Annarita Scaramozza 
    University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
    Poster Title: LINEAGE TRACING REVEALS A SUBSET OF MOUSE MUSCLE RESERVE STEM CELLS CAPABLE OF CLONAL EXPANSION UNDER STRESS

    Kadi Lohmussaar
    Hubrecht Institute
    Poster Title: BUILDING AN ORGANOID-BASED MODEL FOR OVARIAN CANCER

  • 2018 Poster Awards

    Yishai Avior
    Hebrew University of Jerusalem
    UTILIZING RNA SEQUENCING TO IDENTIFY CANCER-RELATED MUTATIONS IN HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS
    Tarja Yvanka de Soysa
    J. David Gladstone Institutes and the University of California, San Francisco
    SINGLE-CELL TRANSCRIPTOME ANALYSIS OF EARLY MOUSE CARDIOGENESIS AND PERTURBATION UPON HAND2 LOSS.
    Jeffrey Davis
    Stem Cells and Regenerative Biology Department at Harvard, U.S.
    METABOLIC PROFILING OF HUMAN STEM CELL-DERIVED β CELLS REVEALS A BOTTLENECK IN GLUCOSE UTILIZATION AND INSULIN SECRETION RESPONSE.

  • 2017 Poster Awards

    Ole Wiskow 

    Stem Cells and Regenerative Biology Department, Harvard University, U.S. 
    IDENTIFICATION OF ALS DISEASE GENE EXPRESSION AND ELECTROPHYSIOLOGICAL SIGNATURES IN SINGLE MOTOR NEURONS USING PATCH-SEQ.

    Diego Balboa Alonso 
    Biomedicum Stem Cell Center, University of Helsinki, Finland
    MODELING OF ER-STRESS IN BETA CELLS USING GENOME EDITED PATIENT-DERIVED iPSC CARRYING INSULIN MUTATIONS. 

    Ino Karemaker
    Radboud Institute for Molecular Life Sciences, Netherlands
    ZBTB2 CAN REGULATE GENE EXPRESSION FROM UNMETHYLATED CPG ISLAND PROMOTERS. 
     
    Wenqian Song 
    Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, China
    HORMONE INDUCE TRANSDIFFERENTIATION OF MAMMARY LUMINAL CELLS TO BASAL STEM CELLS

  • 2016 Poster Awards

    Semir Beyaz 
    Harvard Medical School, USA 
    HIGH FAT DIET ENHANCES STEMNESS AND TUMORIGENICITY OF INTESTINAL PROGENITORS. 

    Di Chen 
    University of California, Los Angeles, USA 
    PRIMED HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS CONTRIBUTE TO THE GERMLINE MORE EFFICIENTLY THAN NAÏVE PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS 

    Tomoki Otani 
    Wellcome Trust / Gurdon Institute, U.K. 
    CELLULAR AND GENETIC MECHANISMS UNDERLYING VARIATIONS IN PRIMATE CEREBRAL CORTEX SIZE 

    Guangdun Peng 
    Shanghai Institute of Biochemistry and Cell Biology/CAS, China
    SPATIAL TRANSCRIPTOME OF MID-GASTRULA MOUSE EMBRYO: MOLECULAR ANNOTATION OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL ACTIVITY, LINEAGE FATES AND CELL IDENTITY

    Giorgia Quadrato 
    Harvard University, USA 

    LARGE-SCALE SINGLE CELL RNA-SEQ RESOLVES CELLULAR HETEROGENEITY IN LONG-TERM CULTURES OF HUMAN CEREBRAL ORGANOIDS

    Kento Onishi 
    University of California, Berkeley, USA
    DISEASE-SPECIFIC INTEGRATED MICROPHYSIOLOGICAL HUMAN TISSUE MODELS
     

  • 2015 Poster Awards

    Jiho Choi
    Harvard University, USA
    GLOBAL TRANSCRIPTIONAL AND EPIGENETIC PATTERNS IN ESCS AND EGCS ARE DRIVEN BY SEX RATHER THAN CELL TYPE

    Hannah Litwin
    Karolinska Institutet, Sweden
    NANOSCALE SPATIAL REGULATION OF NOTCH SIGNALING IN NEURAL STEM CELLS

    Stephanie Protze
    McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Canada
    SINOATRIAL NODE PACEMAKER CELLS GENERATED FROM HUMAN PLURIPOTENT STEM CELLS CAN FUNCTION AS BIOLOGICAL PACEMAKER

    Tammy Ryan
    University of Guelph, Canada
    TRANSMISSION OF MITOCHONDRIAL DYSFUNCTION FROM DISEASED CELLS TO HEALTHY CELLS IN AN ISOGENIC STEM CELL MODEL OF PARKINSON'S DISEASE

    Julius Steinbeck
    Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
    OPTOGENETIC CONTROL IN A FUNCTIONAL HUMAN EMBRYONIC STEM CELL-DERIVED NEURO-MUSCULAR CO-CULTURE SYSTEM