SCIENCE NEWS
Study Identifies Multitude of Genetic Regions Key to Embryonic Stem Cell Development
More than 2,000 genetic regions involved in early human development have been identified by researchers. The regions, called enhancers, are responsible for triggering the expression of distant genes when embryonic stem cells begin to divide to form the many tissues of a growing embryo. [Press release from Stanford University School of Medicine discussing online prepublication in Nature]
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INDUSTRY NEWS
CIRM Governing Board Re-Elects Robert Klein as Chair, Senator Art Torres and Duane Roth as Co-Vice Chairs
The Governing Board of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), the state stem cell agency created by proposition 71, voted to re-elect current chair Robert Klein. [California Institute for Regenerative Medicine Press Release]
Massachusetts General Hospital’s Warren Triennial Prize to Honor Pioneers of Cellular Reprogramming
The 2011 Warren Triennial Prize of Massachusetts General Hospital will be awarded to Shinya Yamanaka, MD, PhD, who discovered a method to convert adult cells into cells with characteristics of embryonic stem cells, and Rudolf Jaenisch, MD, whose extension of Yamanaka’s work includes using those cells to generate animal models of important human diseases. [Massachusetts General Hospital Press Release]
Plans Approved for Visionary Institute
Plans to build a world-leading medical research institute at St Pancras in London have been approved by councilors at Camden Town Hall. The UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation, designed by the architects HOK with PLP Architecture, will have 1,500 staff including 1,250 scientists. [UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation Press Release]
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POLICY NEWS
NIH Accepts ACD Recommendations, Approves Four Additional Human Embryonic Stem Cell Lines
Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH) accepted the recommendations of the Advisory Committee to the Director (ACD), NIH, and approved four additional lines for listing on the NIH Human Embryonic Stem Cell Registry. These four lines include two from Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research in Bangalore, India, and two from Cellartis in Goteborg, Sweden. [National Institutes of Health, United States]
Presidential Commission on Bioethics Calls for Enhanced Federal Oversight in Emerging Field of Synthetic Biology
The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues released its first report — a wide-ranging review of the emerging field of synthetic biology — issuing 18 recommendations including a call for coordinated federal oversight of scientists working in both large institutions and smaller settings. [The Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, United States]
Senate Spending Bill Would Boost NSF, NIH Budgets
In some good fiscal news for the U.S. science community, a Senate spending panel has crafted a 2011 federal budget that would give several science agencies increases that are close to their requested levels. [Senate, United States]
Funding for Science and Research
Funding plans for science and research 2011/12 to 2014/15 were published by the Government. [Department for Business Innovation and Skills, United Kingdom]
National Library of Medicine; Notice of Meeting (FR Doc. 2010-31623) [National Institutes of Health, United States]
National Library of Medicine; Notice of Meeting (FR Doc. 2010-31612) [National Institutes of Health, United States]
National Cancer Institute; Amended Notice of Meeting (FR Doc. 2010-31739) [National Institutes of Health, United States]
Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request; Transfusion-Transmitted Retrovirus and Hepatitis Virus Rates and Risk Factors: Improving the Safety of the U.S. Blood Supply Through Hemovigilance (FR Doc. 2010-31734) [National Institutes of Health, United States]
National Center for Research Resources; Notice of Closed Meetings (FR Doc. 2010-32024) [National Institutes of Health, United States]
National Center for Research Resources; Notice of Meetings (FR Doc. 2010-32020) [National Institutes of Health, United States]
Advisory Committees; Tentative Schedule of Meetings for 2011 [Docket No. FDA-2010-N-0001] [Food and Drug Administration, United States]
Good Laboratory Practice for Nonclinical Laboratory Studies [Docket No. FDA-2010-N-0548] [Food and Drug Administration, United States]
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EVENTS
Biotech Showcase 2011
January 10-12, 2011
San Francisco, United States
5th Annual Stem Cells and Regenerative Medicine World Congress
January 24-25, 2011
San Diego, United States
Keystone Symposia: Stem Cells in Development, Tissue Homeostasis and Disease
January 30-February 4, 2011
Santa Fe, United States
Stem Cell Research Forum of India 2nd Annual Meeting
February 8-11, 2011
Bangalore, India
SMi Stem Cells 2011 – Innovation and Commercialisation
February 23-24, 2011
London, United Kingdom
Molecular Medicine Tri-Conference: Stem Cells – Revolutionizing Regenerative Medicine and Personalized Therapy 2011
February 23-25, 2011
San Francisco, United States
Cell Culture World Congress 2011 – Optimising Cell Culture Development for Biopharmaceutical, Bioprocessing and Manufacture
February 28-March 2, 2011
Munich, Germany
6th Annual Stem Cell Summit
March 1, 2011
New York, United States
American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Stem Cells, Development, and Cancer
March 3-6, 2011
Vancouver, Canada
Keystone Symposia: Stem Cells, Cancer and Metastasis
March 6-11, 2011
Dillon, United States
PITTCON Conference & Expo 2011
March 13-18, 2011
Atlanta, United States
15th Annual Hilton Head Workshop – Regenerative Medicine, Innovations for Clinical Applications
March 16-19, 2011
Hilton Head Island, United States
StemCONN 11
March 22, 2011
Farmington, United States
United Kingdom National Stem Cell Network 2011 Annual Scientific Conference
March 30-April 1, 2011
York, United Kingdom
Clinical Gene Transfer: State of the Art Conference and e-Chips European Congress on Human iPS Cells
April 7-9, 2011
Paris, France
World Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine Congress 2011
May 9-11, 2011
London, United Kingdom
American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy (ASGCT) 14th Annual Meeting
May 18-22, 2011
Seattle, United States
13th Annual C21 BioVentures
May 24-26, 2011
Napa, United States
Tissue Engineering & Regenerative Medicine International Society (TERMIS) – Europe 2010 Annual Conference
June 7-10, 2011
Granada, Spain
International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) 9th Annual Meeting
June 15-18, 2011
Toronto, Canada
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