There should be more stem cell awards. Why not recognize more scientists and advocates? I used to do a Stem Cell Person of the Year Award. I have thought about bringing it back. What do you think? Scroll through some past posts on the Stem Cell Person of the Year Award.
ISSCR gives out stem cell-related awards each year as well. The main annual stem cell award though is the Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize. This year’s winner is Rusty Gage. He has done so much remarkably stem cell research including particularly on neural stem cells and the brain. Rusty Gage receives the 2024 Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize, Gladstone. Congrats.
Do you know of other prominent stem cell awards?
More recommended reads
- Arthritic vulture reunited with partner after jab, BBC. Why would a vulture get a stem cell treatment? Check it out. They used the bird’s own lab-grown stem cells.
- Japan mulls ways to boost cell, gene therapy approvals, BioWorld MedTech.
- Increased cholesterol synthesis drives neurotoxicity in patient stem cell-derived model of multiple sclerosis, Cell Stem Cell.
- If you’re interested in biologics, you may want to regularly check out the FDA webpage for untitled letters from CBER.
- Distinct proliferative and neuronal programmes of chromatin binding and gene activation by ASCL1 are cell cycle stage-specific, bioRxiv. Our team is very interested in the role of ASCL1 in pediatric high-grade glioma with histone H3.3 mutations. This new preprint resonates with some of our modeling of how excess ASCL1 may contribute to H3.3 mutant gliomas.
- I recently wrote about the Mother Stem Cell Institute in Florida, which received an FDA warning letter. This letter came after a patient lawsuit against the firm that was settled. Now the Mother Stem Cell Institute website has switched to one of those holding pattern things.