More than 1,280 students from five public elementary schools in Washington Heights filled Haven Plaza for interactive, hands-on science experiments and to seek information about careers in STEM.
CSCI member Dietrich M. Egli, PhD, with Juan-Manuel Schvartzman, MD, PhD, have been awarded a W.M. Keck Foundation grant towards investigating the causes of genome instability in development.
Researchers in the Passegué Lab found that a cellular recycling process known as autophagy must be activated in old blood stem cells for the cells to survive and function in aged animals.
Stem cell niche generation is regulated in bone marrow, which could lead to improvements in stem cell transplantation for the treatment of blood diseases. Lab of CSCI member Lei Ding, PhD.
International Society for Experimental Hematology (ISEH)
April 24, 2024
The 2024 Donald Metcalf Award goes to Dr. Emmanuelle Passegué for her outstanding work in the fields of normal and malignant hematopoietic stem cell biology.