NHCS successfully creates beating heart cells from patient's skin - Sep 2011
A proof of principle to generate patient specific heart cells utilizing viral free technology suggests that in future patient cells could be reprogrammed to heart cells which could be utilized for personalized medicine. The ability to make heart cells from patients also provides a novel tool to study cardiac diseases.
Stem Cell Workshop 28 - 29 October 2010
Research and Development Unit (RDU) recently hosted a stem cell hands-on training workshop in collaboration with StemCell Technologies Inc, Canada, on 28-29th October 2010. Dr Winston Shim, Senior Staff Scientist said “The workshop enables sharing of RDU know-hows in stem cell biology and was tailored to impart technical expertise to all researchers learning to handle human embryonic stem cells in feeder-free systems”. This fully enrolled workshop included selected participants from various laboratories from Biopolis, NUS and NTU. The two day intensive workshop included guest lectures and hands-on experience for all participants in culturing and maintaining human embryonic stem cells. Training was conducted by scientists from Canada and Singapore of StemCell Technologies and was assisted by Dr Ashish Mehta, Glen Lester Sequiera and Alvin Ng from Dr Shim’s Lab. The workshop was well received and had an excellent feedback from all the participants and StemCell Technologies.
RDU researchers win at SingHealth Duke-NUS Scientific Congress
Two Research and Development Unit (RDU) researchers won the Best Poster Award (Translational Reseach) at the SingHealth Duke- NUS Scientific Congress held on 15 and 16 October. Dr Ashish Mehta’s (rght), Senior Research Fellow, winning poster was titled ‘Viral- Free Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: A Step Towards Clinical Grade Stem Cell. The second winner was Manasi (left), Research Officer. Her poster was titled ‘Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) for cardiac cell therapy’.
Congratulations to both on their win!