GSCN Events


UniStem Day on Demand (DE)
Take a look at the lectures of the UniStem Day 2021 in Berlin with topics as organoids, heart surgery and rare diseases.
  here


Link: Online Discussion (DE)
„Brain in a dish“ – Was genau sind Organoide?
Presentation of the White Paper and book about organoids; GSCN & IAG/ BBAW
more information   here


Link: Online-Event
 Online BIH Lecture in Cooperation with the GSCN
Jürgen Knoblich: Cerebral Organoids - modeling human development and disease
more information   here


9th Annual GSCN Conference
6 - 8 Oct. 2021, Ulm

 

UniStem Day 2021
European Stem Cell Day in Germany
5 March 2021
 more information here

 

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New funding call from European innovative medicine initiative (IMI) 
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GSCN NEWS

9th GSCN Conference goes Dresden

We welcome you to the 9th GSCN Conference 2021 from 6 - 8 October 2021 in Dresden in Saxony! Due to different pandemic hygienic regulations in the states and venues, we are happy to announce that we are on track for a face-to-face meeting - but with a change of locations. The GSCN Conference will take place in Dresden.Read more here.


9th GSCN Conference in Ulm - Registration is open

The 9th GSCN Conference 2021 will take place from 6 to 8 October 2021 in Ulm in Southern Germany. Registration is open now - please register and submit an abstract for oral presentation and /or poster presentation. You find all necessary information here.
After a great virtual GSCN conference 2020, we dare the step toward a physical conference in 2021 again – we all missed the personal interaction and networking in the last year. We invite you with a warm welcome back to a GSCN conference as we knew it in the past years. See you in Ulm!

Read more here.


GSCN & BIH initiate "Dialog Platform Stem Cell Research"

From the beginning of 2021, the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) have entered into a close cooperation. The GSCN networks and promotes stem cell research in Germany with the aim of expanding basic research, accelerating the translation of research results into therapies and linking scientists from the various research fields. The GSCN and the BIH are now joining forces to advance translation with the help of stem cell technologies. They are founding the "Dialog Platform Stem Cell Research", which will network and promote national and international stem cell research even more effectively.

 Please find the press release with more information here.


 

NEW: White Paper:

Organoide - from stem cells to future technologies

    

Organoids are three-dimensional cellular structures grown from stem cells in vitro. They mimic bodily organs, exhibiting similar cellular compositions and functions.
Organoids can be used for basic research and offer great  promise for medical research in an extremely wide range of fields, such as drug screening, toxicity tests, and individual drug-response.

Through this White Paper, the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) and the Interdisciplinary  Research Group (IAG) Gene Technology Report of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) hope to raise public awareness of this research field and stimulate an interdisciplinary public debate on organoids.

The GSCN report on organoids offers a tour of the latest developments in this major research field and of current and potential future applications. The focus is on current organoid research projects and companies, with viewpoints from a range of researchers and stakeholders.
This is followed by the IAG’s core statements and recommendations for action on the use of organoids. 

Please find the  download here (German version here)

Additionally the IAG has published a book: Organoide. Ihre Bedeutung für Forschung, Medizin und Gesellschaft (2020)
Herausgegeben von Sina Bartfeld, Hannah Schickl, Cantas Alev, Bon-Kyoung Koo, Anja Pichl, Angela Osterheider, Lilian Marx-Stölting
Forschungsberichte der interdisziplinären Arbeitsgruppen der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Band 43
Baden-Baden: Nomos (2020)
The book is online available  here


 

Excellent research: Award winners 2020 of the GSCN

The „GSCN 2020 Young Investigator Award“ goes to Prof. Dr. Barbara Treutlein of the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Anthropolgy, Leipzig, and the Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering at the ETH Zurich, Switzerland.
The „GSCN 2020 Female Scientist Award“ goes to Prof. Dr. Edith Heard, Director General of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg.
The „GSCN 2020 Publication of the Year Award“ goes to Sergiy Velychko and Prof. Dr. Hans R. Schöler of the Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine in Munster for the publication “Excluding Oct4 from Yamanaka cocktail unleashes the developmental potential of iPSCs”, 2019, published in the Journal Cell Stem Cell, 2019

Please find the  press release and more information here.


Virtual: 8th Annual GSCN Conference

The 8th Annual GSCN Conference was unique, because she was virtual and with the novel format participants and organizers created together a great scientific meeting. The conference was held from 23 - 25 September 2020 and offered a three-days-program. 390 participants, 45 selected talks, 22 exhibitors of the industry with 3 gold supporters, 6 silver supporters and 6 bronze supporters took part and contributed with pre-recorded talks and intense online discussions.
International keynote lectures, concurrent sessions, working group discussions, a presidential invite, two poster sessions, meet-the-expert-tables, an ELSA session, and an industry exhibition – everything was transferred into an online-version. New was a highly successful format: the job board, where 31 jobs were offered on the frequently visited site. Also new was the format “Point of discussion”, where Christine Mummery (Leiden, NL) described the interaction of COVID-related research and stem cell research.
Since promotion of junior scientists is an aim of the GSCN, most speakers were selected from the best abstracts that had been submitted. Again, the awardees of the GSCN prizes presented their results during the excellent Presidential Symposium. The program was exciting and covered a wide range of topics of this fast-growing field of research. The keynote presentations were delivered by Christine Mummery, Bertie Göttgens (Cambridge, UK), Shahragim Tajbakhsh (Paris, FR), Jonathan Kimmelman (Montreal, CAN) and Marius Wernig (Stanford, US).

Save the date: We are looking forward to welcoming you at our 9th Annual GSCN Conference from 6 – 8 Oct. 2021 in Ulm!


Hot off the press:

Check out the GSCN annual magazine 2019/20

"Stem Cell Research and Diseases I"

Read it online  here (with download link).


Statement of the GSCN

Offers of unproven stem cell therapies for COVID-19 disease caused by the corona virus SARS-CoV-2

With the spreading COVID-19 pandemic, there is an urgent need for new treatments, especially for critically ill patients. Clinical trials, such as experiments with SARS-COV-2 vaccines, are in full swing. However, there is a significant increase in unproven and untested therapies worldwide, including unproven treatments based on "stem cells". The German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) as well as international scientific societies such as EuroStemCell (Statement), the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR Statement) and the International Society for Cell & Gene Therapy (ISCT Statement) strongly oppose the irresponsible offer of unproven cell-based treatments, especially in the context of such a severe pandemic. Affected individuals and families are urged to talk to healthcare professionals to obtain the best available information on COVID-19 disease and treatment options.


Analogue & digital exhibition

Stem cells: cells for life– 10 Posters (in German) to download

The GSCN has developed an exhibition for institutes, universities and teachers - 10 posters on topics of current stem cell research like diabetes, organoids, skin, ethics and many more. Each poster is accompanied by a website with videos, factsheets and an interactive quiz to deepen the information.
The highlight: The posters are available as DINA 0 format on the GSCN website - anyone can download them, print them out as posters or roll-ups - and immediately has a complete, analogue and digitally enhanced, exhibition on stem cells, research and application at hand.

     

Link to the website (only in German): Stammzellen - Zellen fürs Leben


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News from the field


(DE) - article in German, (GSCN) - contribution of GSCN members

Please read more news about stem cell research here

Blood stem cells make brain tumors more aggressive
Source: EurekAlert, 28.06.2021

Scientists Discover Two New Types of Glial Cells in Mouse Brain
Source: Sci-News.com, 16.07.2021

Stem cell scientists make big progress in building mini-kidneys
Source: sciencedaily.com, 15.07.2021

A call for global oversight of unproven stem cell therapies
Source: eurekalert.org, 09.06.2021

Stem-cell guidelines: why it was time for an update
Source: nature.com, 26.05.2021

The ISSCR Releases Updated Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation
Source: ISSCR, 26.05.2021

Leopoldina und Akademienunion sprechen sich für Neubewertung des Embryonenschutzes in Deutschland aus (DE)
Source: leopoldina.org, 26.05.2021

Frühe Geschlechtsunterschiede (DE) (GSCN)
Source: molgen.mpg.de, 30.04.2021

New 3D organoid model of pancreas developed from human stem cells
Source: drugtargetreview.com, 29.04.2021

ERS Monograph: Lung Stem Cells in Development, Health and Disease
Source: European Respiratory Society (ERS) publications, April 2021

Bauchspeicheldrüsen-Tumore aus dem Labor: Organoide helfen, die Krebsentstehung zu verstehen (DE) (GSCN)
Source: uni-ulm.de, 28.04.2021

Elusive cancer cells dissected using developmental-biology toolkit
Source: nature.com, 20.04.2021

Stem cell transplant after CAR T-cell therapy effective for young leukemia patients
Source: ccr.cancer.gov, 20.04.2021

Lab-grown embryos mix human and monkey cells
Der Affenmensch in der Petrischale

Source: science.org<, Tagesspiegel.de, 15.04.2021

Aged bone marrow niche impedes function of rejuvenated hematopoietic stem cells (GSCN)
Source: eurekalert.org, 13.04.2021

Cell-based method for the regeneration of myelin (GSCN)
Source: mpi-muenster.de, 12.04.2021

Scientists identify new differences between the sexes in age-related changes to brain stem cells
Source: eurekalert.org, 08.04.2021 

Warum Blutstammzellen lange nicht altern (GSCN)(DE) 
Source: ärzteblatt.de, 25.03.2021

Meilenstein der Stammzellforschung: Modelle menschlicher Embryonen (GSCN) (DE)
Blastocyst-like structures generated from human pluripotent stem cells
Source: Berliner Zeitung, nature.com, 17.03.2021

Scientists grew tiny tear glands in a dish — then made them cry
Source: nature.com, 16.03.2021

USC Stem Cell scientists start a buzz around fruit flies in hearing research
Source: EurekAlert.org, 16.03.2021

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