The 2013 Stem Cell Person of the Year Award process (see details and rules here) is off to a great start. With about a week remaining in the time period for nominations I have 2 dozen nominees so far. This group of nominees is very diverse, far more so than last year, and includes more […]
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Nominations will open tomorrow September 10th for the 2013 Stem Cell Person of the Year Award. The 2012 award process involved several steps and included an online polling element that had some influence on the ultimate decision. You can see the voting on the list of finalists (who were selected from about 30 total nominees) here. Ultimately, super
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The Knoepfler Lab 2012 Stem Cell Person of the Year is Roman Reed. Congratulations, Roman Reed! Roman made a tremendous difference in 2012 in many ways. One of the most notable was catalyzing the TJ Atchison Spinal Cord Injury Research Act in Alabama, which provides $400,000/year in funding for research. Of course, TJ and many
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For years I’ve thought that there are many people in the stem cell field who do not get recognition despite doing amazing things. Often these heroes make great personal sacrifices to help others. They take risks. They spend their time and often their own money to make a difference. As a result last year I
My blog’s Stem Cell Person of the Year 2012 yielded about 30 nominations and 16 finalists who were candidates in an online vote that is now complete. More than 4,600 votes were cast including about 1,000 in less than one day after the voting started. The online vote is but one factor in my decision on
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My blog’s Stem Cell Person of the Year Award process has gotten off to a very exciting start. I have an amazing bunch of nominees and about 1000 votes were case in about 12 hours. Based on some discussions with people yesterday, I believe a few clarifications are needed about the process: The award is
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Here on The Niche I’m giving out a Stem Cell Person of the Year Award for 2012 along with all my other annual awards (e.g. best stem cell journal, paper, blog, comic, activist, etc). 2020 update: you can see future winners of the award here. The Person of the Year winner will get recognition for
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I’ve received such a huge response (more than 20 nominees) for the Knoepfler Lab Stem Cell Person of the Year Award and the nominees to date are so awesome that I’ve decided for practical purposes to end the nomination period a bit earlier than originally planned. Thus, tomorrow Dec. 13 will be the last day
The Knoepfler Lab Blog is giving out a Stem Cell Person of the Year 2012 Award (details here) with a cash prize of $1000. The deadline for nominations for this award is in 10 days. So far I’ve received almost 20 nominations, but I’d like even more. Call me crazy for this as it’ll just
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Over the years I’ve given out yearly awards on this blog for various achievements (good or not so good) in the stem cell field for specific years. See 2010 and 2011 awards here. This year the Knoepfler Lab 2012 Awards are going to be the most exciting ever. I’m going to give out some of