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Yonatan Stelzer Earns the 2025 ISSCR Outstanding Young Investigator Award
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is honoring Yonatan Stelzer, Ph.D. with the 2025 ISSCR Outstanding Young Investigator Award. Dr. Selzer is an associate professor in the Department of Molecular Cell Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
Paola Arlotta Receives the 2025 ISSCR Momentum Award
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is honoring Paola Arlotta, Ph.D., with this year’s ISSCR Momentum Award. Dr. Arlotta is the Golub Family Professor of the Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology at Harvard University and an Institute member at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. She will present her research during the ISSCR 2025 Annual Meeting in Hong Kong taking place 11-14 June 2025.
Gordon Keller Receives the 2025 ISSCR Achievement Award for his Seminal Work in Regenerative Medicine
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) is honoring Gordon Keller, Ph.D., with this year’s ISSCR Achievement Award. Dr. Keller is the Director of the McEwen Stem Cell Institute at the University Health Network (UHN) in Toronto, Canada. He will present his research at the ISSCR 2025 Annual Meeting taking place in Hong Kong 11-14 June 2025.
The ISSCR to Celebrate 20th Anniversary of iPSC Discovery in Kyoto, Japan
International Symposium Chaired by Nobel Laureate Shinya Yamanaka to be Held in October 2026
World-renowned stem cell scientists will gather in Kyoto, Japan for the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) International Symposium, 20 Years of iPSC Discovery: A Celebration and Vision for the Future. Professor Shinya Yamanaka, who earned the 2012 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his breakthrough iPSC discovery, is leading the scientific program for the historic event.
The ISSCR Announces New Lawrence Goldstein Science Policy Fellows
The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has appointed three new Goldstein Science Policy Fellows, Lizhong Liu, Ph.D., Westlake University, China, Kate MacDuffie, Ph.D., Seattle Children’s Research Institute, U.S.A., and Mubeen Goolam, Ph.D., University of Cape Town, South Africa. The fellows each have extensive interest in science policy and regulatory issues affecting stem cell science and will serve for three years beginning in June 2025.
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