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The Vancouver Sun, Op Ed: Gordie Howe's Pursuit of Stem Cell Treatment Abroad is an Awakening for Continued Education and Informed Choice
An opinion piece by Drs. Judy Illes and Fabio Rossi, investigators with the Stem Cell Network.Full story -
Member Spotlight on Becky Tsai, PhD
CIRM Postdoctoral Scholar at the City of Hope National Medical Center and podcast enthusiast Dr. Becky Tsai aims to develop tools that contribute to improving patient diagnosis and treatment. She also aids in the personal development of Southern California’s youth. Find out how and why in this month’s Member Spotlight.Full story -
The International Society for Stem Cell Research Announces the 2015 Recipients of the McEwen Award for Innovation, the ISSCR-BD Biosciences Outstanding Young Investigator and the ISSCR Public Service Awards
The International Society for Stem Cell Research is excited to announce the society’s 2015 award recipients, who will be formally recognized at its annual meeting, taking place June 24-27, 2015 in Stockholm, Sweden.Full story -
The ISSCR Announces 2015 Recipients of the McEwen Award for Innovation, the ISSCR-BD Biosciences Outstanding Young Investigator, and the ISSCR Public Service Awards, 20 January, 2015
The ISSCR Announces Recipients of the 2015 McEwen Award for Innovation, the ISSCR-BD Biosciences Outstanding Young Investigator, and the ISSCR Public Service AwardsFull story -
Year in Review
See just a few of the 2014 initiatives that furthered our mission to promote professional and public education and discourse in all areas of stem cell research and application.Full story -
Remembering Dr. Donald Metcalf
The ISSCR remembers with sadness an important contributor to stem cell science.Full story -
Stem Cell Podcast Becomes the Official Podcast of the ISSCR
The International Society for Stem Cell Research is thrilled to announce the Stem Cell Podcast as the official podcast of the ISSCR. Launched in September 2013, the podcast focuses on providing stem cell scientists with up-to-date information on recent literature and trends and features in-depth interviews with experts from the stem cell field.Full story -
Member Spotlight on Steven Kattman, PhD
As a Senior Group Leader with Cellular Dynamics International, Inc. in Madison, WI, USA, Dr. Kattman focuses on product and assay development of human iPSC-derived cells used in drug discovery, toxicity testing, basic life science research and regenerative medicine. But he’s also an adventurous collector. Find out in what tangible way he connects with the earth’s past in this month’s Member Spotlight.Full story -
Q&A: Stem Cells, Regenerative Medicine, and Veterans
Q&A with Dr. Anthony Atala, director of Wake Forest Institute for Regenerative Medicine, North Carolina, U.S.A., and leader of the consortium of researchers that make up the Armed Forces Institute of Regenerative Medicine (AFIRM). He spoke about the organization and its mission.Full story -
The International Society for Stem Cell Research Opens Media Registration for “Global Controls in Stem Cells,” a Regional Forum in Singapore, November 5-7, 2014
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is accepting media registration in advance of “Global Controls in Stem Cells,” taking place November 5-7 in Singapore.Full story -
Member Spotlight on Lygia V. Pereira, Ph.D.
Dr. Pereira’s University of São Paulo group at the National Laboratory of Embryonic Stem Cells (LaNCE) is developing a library of hiPSC for in vitro studies of drug response and toxicity, but she doesn't remember deciding to become a scientist; it just happened. Find out which surprising hidden passion could entice her to give up academia in this month’s Member Spotlight.Full story -
From Stem Cells to Billions of Human Insulin Producing Cells
With human embryonic stem cells as a starting point, the scientists are for the first time able to produce, in the kind of massive quantities needed for cell transplantation and pharmaceutical purposes, human insulin-producing beta cells equivalent in most every way to normally functioning beta cells.Full story -
Member Spotlight on Timothy Caulfield, LLM, FRSC, FCAHS
How did motion sickness lead health law and policy researcher Timothy Caulfield to explore the scope, nature and drivers of marketing unproven stem cell therapies with his team at the University of Alberta? Discover the “career” he abandoned in the ‘80s and more in this month’s Member Spotlight.Full story -
ISSCR Soliciting Nominations for Board of Directors – Deadline November 1
The ISSCR Nominating Committee, chaired by Janet Rossant, is soliciting nominations for Board of Directors positions which will become available in June 2015. Read more about it on the Elections Process page.Full story -
Member Spotlight on Jose Polo, PhD
At around age 12, Dr. Polo received his grandfather’s microscope, sparking an interest in biology. Since then, this Argentine father of twins has kept quite busy. Learn what social science he briefly pursued instead, and discover what makes working in Melbourne so great in this month’s Member Spotlight.Full story -
New CellNet Quality Control Tool Ensures Lab-created Cells Have the Right Properties
Scientists at Boston Children’s Hospital, the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University and Boston University have created a computer algorithm called CellNet as a “roadmap” for cell and tissue engineering, to ensure that cells engineered in the lab have the same favorable properties as cells in our own bodies.Full story -
The ISSCR Announces New Global Advisory Council Chairpersons
Dr. Susan Lim and Mr. Deepak Sharma are appointed chairpersons of the ISSCR Global Advisory Council, which brings together academic, business, corporate, civic and philanthropic leaders interested in supporting the society in its mission to transform human health worldwide.Full story -
Member Spotlight on Jiaqian Wu, PhD
Dr. Wu grew up in a household of scientists. Now, after a long week investigating stem cell neural differentiation in the lab, you might find her surfing in the Gulf of Mexico south of the University of Texas Medical School at Houston. But you'll never guess how she spent her Friday nights as a Yale postdoc.Full story -
Connecting Genetics and Heart Disease through Stem Cell Research
Scientists know that a person’s genetic makeup contributes to the likelihood of their having a heart attack, but there has remained a gap between their knowledge of genetic indicators and medicine; a gap Harvard University scientist, Chad Cowan, Ph.D., is trying to bridge through stem cell research.Full story -
Sadness Over the Tragic Loss of Dr. Yoshiki Sasai
The ISSCR joins the stem cell research community in mourning the loss of Dr. Yoshiki Sasai, an internationally recognized Japanese scientist.Full story -
Member Spotlight on Eran Meshorer, PhD
Dr. Meshorer grew up in a household that included both science and art, and he continues to be active in and out of the lab. You'll never guess where he accepted a position as a producer before he became a principal investigator. Discover that and more in this month’s Member Spotlight.Full story -
Rudolf Jaenisch Assumes Leadership of the International Society for Stem Cell Research
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is pleased to announce Rudolf Jaenisch, Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as incoming president of the ISSCR board of directors, immediately following the ISSCR’s 12th Annual Meeting, June 18-21, 2014. Jaenisch will serve as president for one year and succeeds Janet Rossant. The role of vice president will be filled by Sally Temple, Neural Stem Cell Institute.Full story -
Member Spotlight on Jiwen Zhang, PhD
Dr. Zhang is a regulatory affairs director from Inner Mongolia who considers herself a scientist at heart. In this month’s Member Spotlight, learn what led her to this industry position and what she likes most about living in Philadelphia.Full story -
The ISSCR Welcomes the Response by the EU Commission to Concerns around hESC Research Funding
The ISSCR welcomes the recent EU Commission’s response to concerns about how funding from the Horizon 2020 EU Research and Innovation program is to be used for human embryonic stem cell research. The ISSCR advocates that all forms of stem cell research are crucial for the advancement of our understanding of human health and disease and for the development of novel treatments.Full story -
Stem Cells May be Key to Curing Retinal Disease
Robin Ali, Ph.D., UCL Institute of Ophthalmology in London, has developed a strategy for repairing the retina by transplanting photoreceptor cells generated in the laboratory from embryonic stem cells.Full story -
Organoids Offer Stem Cell Experts a Window into Kidney Disease
Stem cell researchers are now using organoids, lab-grown models of human organs, to better understand kidney disease. In the future, organoids may also provide an important test model for experimental drugs.Full story -
Member Spotlight on Tenneille Ludwig, PhD
What unusual profession helped Dr. Ludwig pay for two years of school? How did she become director of the WiCell Stem Cell Bank and not an IVF clinic as she envisioned? Find out in this month's Member Spotlight.Full story -
2014 ISSCR Election Results Announced
The ISSCR congratulates the winners of the 2014 Elections. New officers and members of the ISSCR Board of Directors will begin their terms in June 2014 following the conclusion of the ISSCR 12th Annual Meeting in Vancover, Canada.Full story -
Details of ISSCR 12th Annual Meeting
The ISSCR 12th Annual Meeting will take place June 18-21, 2014 at the Vancouver Convention Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The meeting will bring together approximately 4,000 stem cell scientists, bioethicists, clinicians and industry professionals from over 50 countries to present and discuss the latest research and technologies within the field.Full story -
Human Disease Modeling Under the Microscope
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPS cells) have been hailed as a future cell therapy, but they are playing an equally important role in research, revolutionizing the way scientists study human disease. By cultivating human stem cell lines in a dish, scientists are better able to understand diseases, including those with unique genetic markers.Full story -
Late Breaking Abstracts are now being accepted for the ISSCR 12th Annual Meeting
New for 2014, the ISSCR is now accepting Late Breaking Abstracts to be considered for poster presentations at the upcoming ISSCR 12th Annual Meeting, June 18-21 in Vancouver, Canada.Full story -
Two Papers Open a New Window into Pluripotency
The ISSCR is pleased to help spread the news about two papers published online today in Nature that describe the induction of pluripotency in cells from a newborn mouse without the use of extrinsic transcription factors, chemical manipulation or nuclear transfer.Full story -
The ISSCR Announces 2014 Awards Recipients
The ISSCR announces recipients of its 2014 awards, which will be presented at the 12th Annual Meeting in Vancouver, taking place June 18-21, 2014.Full story -
Workshop, "Stem Cell Therapies: Opportunities for Assuring the Quality and Safety of Unregulated Clinical Offerings"
The ISSCR, the Institute of Medicine and the National Academy of Sciences, is hosting a Washington, DC-based workshop and live webcast examining the practice and consequences of unproven stem cell treatments on November 18, 2013 from 8:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. EDTFull story -
ISSCR Statement of Delivery of Unproven Autologous Cell-based Interventions to Patients
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) urges medical licensing bodies, legal authorities, patient advocacy organizations, physicians, and others to exercise their influence to discourage commercial provision of unproven autologous cell-based interventions outside of clinical trials.Full story -
ISSCR Celebrates Inaugural Issue of its Open Access Journal, Stem Cell Reports
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is excited to announce the inaugural issue of Stem Cell Reports, the society’s new open-access journal, published today. Stem Cell Reports, published for the ISSCR by Cell Press, presents high-quality, peer-reviewed research presenting conceptual or practical advances across the breadth of stem cell research and its applications to medicine, with a focus on shorter, single-point articles.Full story -
ISSCR Emphasizes Importance of Regulatory Oversight for Stem Cell Products for Clinical Use
The ISSCR urges Italian lawmakers to heed concerns of scientists around the world about the premature practice of unproven stem cell treatments and to recognize the importance of regulatory oversight and patient protection when developing new stem cell medicines.Full story -
ISSCR Voices Concern as Italian Government Authorizes Unproven Stem Cell Therapy
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) voices concern as the Italian government authorizes an unproven stem cell therapy for use in patients.Full story -
ISSCR President, Board Member, and 11th Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker Among Winners of Breakthrough Prize
ISSCR President, Shinya Yamanaka, Board of Directors member Hans Clevers and the ISSCR 2013 Annual Meeting Keynote Speaker Eric Lander, were three of 11 distinguished recipients of the inaugural Breakthrough Prize in Life Sciences, announced todayFull story -
ISSCR Statement on U.S. Supreme Court decision to deny certiorari in case of Sherley v. Sebelius
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) welcomes the decision of the US Supreme Court to deny certiorari in the case of Sherley v Sebelius, which had challenged federal funding of human embryonic stem cell research.Full story -
ISSCR to Launch Open Access Journal, Stem Cell Reports
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) announces the launch of Stem Cell Reports, its new online, open-access journal. With a focus on shorter, single-point articles, Stem Cell Reports will publish high-quality, peer-reviewed research presenting conceptual or practical advances across the breadth of stem cell research and its applications to medicine.Full story
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