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OSCI Press Releases and News Articles
OSCI The ties that bind. Biotechnology Focus BIO Edition, June 2012
McMaster joins provincial stem cell research collective. The Spectator, June 14, 2011
Robarts researchers join provincial stem cell team. London Community News, June 14, 2011
Ontario launches province-wide stem cell partnership. Ontario Stem Cell Initiative, June 10, 2011
OSCI Backgrounders
OSCI Organizing Committee Profiles
Video Clips
Hear what OSCI scientists have to say about stem cells.
Janet Rossant, Chief of Research & Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto talks about the power of stem cells, her own research in cystic fibrosis and the formation of the Ontario Stem Cell Initiative. Courtesy of SickKids Interactive.
Derek van der Kooy, Professor of Molecular Genetics at the University of Toronto, talks about curing blindness using retinal stem cells. Courtesy of the Stem Cell Foundation.
Mick Bhatia, Director & Senior Scientist of the McMaster Stem Cell & Cancer Research Institute in Hamilton, talks about turning skin cells into blood. Courtesy of McMaster Daily News.
Michael Rudnicki, Senior Scientist and Director of the Regenerative Medicine Program at the Sprott Centre for Stem Cell Research at the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, talks about curing muscular dystrophy. Courtesy of the Stem Cell Foundation.
John Dick, Senior Scientist, Ontario Cancer Institute, University Health Network in Toronto talks about finding a needle in a haystack, courtesy of University Health Network.
Gordon Keller, Director of the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine in Toronto on finding a master heart cell. Courtesy of the University Health Network Foundation.
Andras Nagy, Senior Investigator, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute in Toronto talks about a radical discovery. Courtesy of the Stem Cell Foundation.
Freda Miller, Senior Scientist, Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto talks about healing with our skin. Courtesy of the Stem Cell Foundation.
Molly Shoichet, Professor, University of Toronto talks about stem cells and spinal cord injuries. Courtesy of the University of Toronto.
Upcoming Seminar
Please join us for an OSCI External Seminar on Monday, June 10th at 4:00 pm for Harvey Lodish, Professor, Whitehead Institute, Cambridge, "Self-renewal of erythroid progenitor cells: molecular mechanisms and new anemia drugs". Attend in Toronto in Room #6, Lower Level, Tanz Neuroscience Building, 6 Queen's Park Circle. Unfortunately due to U of T's convocation, we will be unable to webcast this seminar.
OSCI is starting a new seminar series, Translation Talks, that will link stem cell biologists with clinicians doing translational work in regenerative medicine. Our next seminar is on Thursday, April 4th and will feature Gordon Keller, Director, McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine, "Generating cardiomyocytes from human pluripotent stem cells" and Terrence Yau, Surgical Director, Cardiac Stem Cell Therapy Program, UHN, "The cardiac stem cell transplantation program at the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre". Join us on Thursday, April 4th from 9:15 to 10:15 am in the Red Room, 2nd Floor Atrium, Donnelly Centre, 160 College Street, Toronto OR join us through our webcast: http://mediacast.ic.utoronto.ca/20130404-OSCI/index.htm
