Date: 31 March 2025        All welcome / Attendance is free
Time: 13:30 - 18:15h & reception
Venue: Liebigstrasse 21,
Central Lecture Theatre
Zoom-Link for hybrid participation     

Flyer
Speaker:
14 - 15:45h Session I:
Ulrike Köhl, (Fraunhofer IZI / Med. Faculty) Saxocell: Precision therapy cluster for Saxony
Claudia Claus (Inst. for Virology) Using pluripotent stem cells to model virus infection during development
P. Schweizer / M. Harzer / C. Kiesewetter (Vet. Medicine) Intestinal organoids in veterinary medicine
15:45 - 16:15 Break: Coffee & Cookies
16:15 - 18:15h Session II:
Zoltan Ivics (Fraunhofer IZI / Medical Faculty) Gene therapy challenges and solutions
Volker Arps (Bio-Techne) Bio-Techne solutions for stem cell-based applications
Michael Cross (Dept. of Hematology) Hematopoietic stem cell metabolism
Matthias Meier (Biochemical Cell Technology) Stem cell derived vessels on a chip
18:15  - 19:00h Reception: Informal get together with Drinks and Finger Food
More information here

Date: 2 April 2025        All are welcome / Attendance free
Venue: MHH, Lecture Hall G, Builiding I1 
ZOOM LInk for HYBRID PARTICIPATION     
Program:
10:00 – 10:30 Welcome & Coffee
1. Session
10:30 - 10:45  Daniel Besser, GSCN
10:45 – 11:15 Ruth Olmer „In vitro modelling of inherited lung diseases using iPSC-derived cells”
11:15 – 11:45 Tobias Cantz “Individualized iPSC models of liver diseases: ethical and biomedical implications”
11:45 – 12:15 Carola Voss – “Lung organoids for delineating perturbation patterns in respiratory health”

12:15 – 13:00 Light Lunch
2. Session
13:00 – 13:30 Ulrich Martin – “hiPSC-based Heart Repair in a Non-Human Primate Model of Myocardial Infarction”
13:30 – 14:00 Robert Zweigerdt – „Making and repairing hearts with human pluripotent stem cells”
14:00 – 14:30 Eppendorf, tbc
14:30 – 15:00 Axel Schambach – “Translation of gene therapies using hematopoietic stem cells”

15:00 – 15:30 Coffee & Cookies
3. Session
15:30 – 16:00 Florian Perner “Menin-MLL inhibition: Targeting chromatin to disrupt aberrant self-renewal in leukemia”
16:00 – 16:30 Constanza Figueiredo “Blood Pharming: Engineering Megakaryocytes for transfusion, diagnostic and regenerative medicine”
16:30 – 17:00 Nico Lachmann  “Advanced Generation of Human Immune Cells from iPSC: In Process Cryopreservation meet Continous Production of Immune Cells”
17:00 – 19:00 GET TOGETHER with Finger Food and Drinks
All information here

Date: 7 - 9 April 2025 in Berlin

➚ Register

Audience: Stem cell biologists (PhD students, Postdocs, Research associates) working with single-cell genomics data. 
Beginners (Group B): first steps into single-cell data, little to no coding experience
Advanced (Group A): have already had hands-on data and some coding experience, ideally in Python. 
Goal: This workshop aims to equip stem cell biologists with a comprehensive introduction to computational single-cell genomics, focusing on data analysis using software from the scverse ecosystem. Designed for both beginners and advanced users, the workshop will provide hands-on experience with key tools for processing and analyzing multiple single-cell data modalities, including:
Single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) 
Spatial transcriptomics
Single-cell ATAC sequencing (scATAC-seq) (for advanced attendees only)
Find all information about program, trainers, venue here

Save the date: the 2025 GSCN Conference will take place at Helmholtz Munich in Neuherberg from 15 - 17 October 2025.

What a great conference: The 12^th GSCN Conference took place in Jena from 25 until 27 Sept. 2024. With around 340 participants, 160 posters, 9 keynotes, 2 get together and a big industry exhibition, it was a busy, exciting and vivid meeting. Lots of ongoing discussions, networking and inspiring conversations over the three days. Find the foto gallery of the whole three days of the conference with dowlnload option here.

The "GSCN 2024 Young Investigator Award" goes to Claudia Gerri of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI-CBG) in Dresden.
The "GSCN 2024 Hilde Mangold Award" goes to Mina Gouti from the Max Delbrück Center in Berlin.
The "GSCN Publication of the Year Award 2024" goes to Jorge Lázaro, ... Miki Ebisuya for the publication "A stem cell zoo uncovers intracellular scaling of developmental tempo across mammals", 2023, Lázaro J, et. al., Ebisuya M., Cell Stem Cell, 30: 938-949.

Please find more information on the Awardees and the press releases here

The GSCN congratulates all Awardees 2024 and is looking forward to the Presidential Symposium on 26 Sept. in Jena, when all GSCN Awardees will give a talk and receive their awards.

The global stem cell economy

Content: 
- The global stem cell economy:
   - Europe
   - North America
   - Asia-Pacific 
- Portrait Georg Duda: Leveraging bioengineering for advanced and sustainable medicine
- White Rhinos: Stem cell technologies - a backbone of science-based species conservation
- and more articles ...

Read it online here (with download link).
Read the German version  here (with download link).

The ISSCR has published an updated guide about stemcell treatments with ressourceful information for patients, recommendations for questions and considerations before deciding on a stemcell therapie and the risk of unproven stemcell therapies. 
Find more information in English and German here.

EN (➙ DE)
The German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) has identified changing societal attitudes in Germany towards human embryonic stem cell research in an online survey. 
More information and the data of the survey ➙ here.
DE:
Das German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) hat bei einer Online-Umfrage veränderte gesellschaftliche Einstellungen in Deutschland zur Forschung mit humanen embryonalen Stammzellen festgestellt. 
Mehr Informationen und die Daten der Umfrage ➙ hier.

The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) has published an updated 
Guide to Stem Cell Treatment
It is central to the society’s mission to share scientifically accurate information to inform patients and families about the current state of stem cell research and potential treatments. The ISSCR aims to further patient safety and public health through our efforts to promote legitimate stem cell research and credible stem cell treatments.

In Berlin, Munich, Hannover,Heidelberg, NRW and Jena UniStem Days took place with high school students getting insight into stem cell research. A highlight day of science communication and for the public engagement of stem cell scientists!

   
M. Rezvani                     S. Spuler                          S. Bartfeld
Find more impressions here.

The GSCN had a significant presence at the ISSCR meeting in Hamburg (10 – 13 July 2024), this first global stem cell meeting in Germany:
- 9 July 2024: the GSCN hosted a public event (in German) with Jürgen Knoblich, Hans Schöler, Maike Sander and Ole Pless on the current state of stem cell research in the main building of the University of Hamburg - 100 visitors showed deep interest in the science.
- 11 July 2024:  a well visited GSCN Meet-up Hub on Thursday from 15:45 - 16:30h as a meeting point for German scientists
- 12 July 2024: GSCN/BIH organized a focus session “Strategies for gene and cell-based therapies in Europe” at 13:30h with an extended interest by the 150 - 200 visitors and intense discussions.