Fall 2017
NYSCF INNOVATOR
PROGRAM
IMPACT REPORT The New York Stem Cell Foundation
The New York Stem Cell Foundation is accelerating cures for the major diseases of our time through stem cell research.
NYSCF I N V E S T I G ATO R PROGRAMS The NYSCF Investigator Programs support and encourage promising early career scientists whose cutting-edge research holds the potential to accelerate treatments and cures. These scientists are the engineers of tomorrow’s breakthroughs. The Programs provide support for: •
NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigator Awards
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NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigator Awards
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NYSCF – Ralph Lauren Stem Cell Investigator Award
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NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize
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NYSCF Research Institute Investigators
N YS CF IN VE ST IGATOR PROG R AM S I NSTITUT I ONS O F CURREN T STEM C E L L I NV E STI G ATO RS Academic Medical Center, The Netherlands Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard California Institute of Technology Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center Harvard Medical School Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Lund University, Sweden Massachusetts General Hospital Massachusetts Institute of Technology Stanford University University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
IN STITU T IONS O F CURREN T NEUROS CI E NCE I N VESTI G ATO RS Boston Children's Hospital Brain & Spine Institute (ICM), France Cornell University Harvard Medical School Massachusetts Institute of Technology Princeton University Stanford University The Rockefeller University University of California, Berkeley University of California, San Francisco University of Geneva, Switzerland
Creating a global community of scientists leading their generation in cutting-edge research
I N STI TUT I O N S O F N YS C F – RO B E RTS O N S TE M C E L L P RI ZE RE C I P I E N TS Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Case Western Reserve University Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Harvard University Kyoto University, Japan Stanford University University College London, United Kingdom
I N S TI TU TI O N S O F AL U M N I I N VE S TI GATO RS Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine Columbia University Harvard Medical School Harvard University Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Massachusetts Institute of Technology Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Germany New York University School of Medicine The NYSCF Research Institute Stanford University The Rockefeller University University of Arizona University of California, San Diego University of Utah Washington University School of Medicine Weill Cornell Medical College
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N YS CF IN VE ST IGATOR PROG R AM S S I N C E T H E P RO GR A M S ’ I N C E PT I O N
61
SCIENTISTS SUPPORTED
at
38
DIFFERENT INSTITUTIONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD
NYSCF – ROBERTSON STEM CELL INVESTIGATORS NYSCF – ROBERTSON NEUROSCIENCE INVESTIGATORS NYSCF – ROBERTSON STEM CELL PRIZE RECIPIENTS ALUMNI
NYSCF RESEARCH INSTITUTE INVESTIGATORS
Over
850
YOUNG SCIENTISTS ARE BEING TRAINED IN THE LABS
OUR INVESTIGATORS HAVE WON
over
400
of these
61
INVESTIGATORS
AWARDS AND HONORS IN THEIR CAREERS
including:
Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers, NIH Director’s New Innovator Award, Breakthrough Prize, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Research Fellowship, Pew Scholars Awards, Time Magazine’s “People Who Mattered”
THEY HAVE GIVEN
over
2000
TALKS ON THEIR EXCITING AND INNOVATIVE including at: WORK WORLDWIDE
TED, The Kavli Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Society for Neuroscience
I M PAC T
2100
OUR INVESTIGATORS HAVE PUBLISHED OVER Â PUBLICATIONS THROUGHOUT THEIR CAREERS INCLUDING:
90
PAPERS
102
58
PAPERS
77
PAPERS
PAPERS
158
69
PAPERS
PAPERS
RE S EA RCH AR EAS BY T H E N U M B E R S AREAS OF STUDY 3%
Aging Autoimmune Diseases
3%
3%
10% 3% 8%
8%
Blindness Cancer Cardiovascular Diseases Diabetes
13%
Lung Diseases
13%
STEM CELL RESEARCH AREAS
Gene Editing/Human Genome Neurodegenerative Diseases Stem Cell Biology
3%
Tissue Engineering Alzheimer’s
General
Schizophrenia Rare Diseases
14%
Multiple Sclerosis (MS)
Parkinson's Disease
36%
14%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
23%
NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH AREAS
AREAS OF STUDY Neurobiology
9%
Neurotechnologies Development Learning & Memory Decision Making
41%
NYSCF F E L L OW S H I P PROGRAM Through the NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellowship Awards, NYSCF supports the most talented young scientists at critical junctures in their careers. The program creates opportunities for young scientists to be trained and supported in the pursuit of innovative and groundbreaking stem cell research.
Through their research, this global community of scientists is pushing forward new treatments and cures for patients around the world.
NYSCF – DRUCKENMILLER FELLOWS
N YS CF – DRUCKENMILLER FE L L OWS
Creating a global community of scientists leading their generation in stem cell
INSTIT U T ION S OF ALU M N I F EL L OWS Albert Einstein College of Medicine Columbia University Harvard University Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Johns Hopkins University Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York Neural Stem Cell Institute New York University School of Medicine The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel The NYSCF Research Institute The Rockefeller University The Salk Institute University of Rochester Medical Center Weill Cornell Medical College Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar Yale University
INSTIT U T ION S OF CU R R EN T F EL LOWS Albert Einstein College of Medicine Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center New York University School of Medicine The Rockefeller University Weill Cornell Medical College Yale University
research
Creating a global community of scientists leading their generation in stem cell research
C U RRE N T I N STI T U TI O N S OF ALUMNI A*STAR, IMCB, Singapore Albert Einstein College of Medicine Angelini, Italy Bar-Ilan University, Israel Columbia University Dana Farber Cancer Institute Harvard University Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia, Spain Johns Hopkins University King Mongkut's University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand Ludwig Botzmann Institute, Austria Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center National Institute of Biological Sciences, China New York Neural Stem Cell Institute Northwestern University Oregon Health & Science University Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar Soonchunhyang University, South Korea Tel Aviv University, Israel The Feinstein Institute for Biomedical Research The NYSCF Research Institute The Rockefeller University The San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy TiGenix, Spain University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany University of Calgary, Canada University of Padova, Italy University of Palermo, Italy University of Pennsylvania University of Southern California University of Texas Health Science Center VUmc Cancer Center Amsterdam, The Netherlands Weill Cornell Medical College
NYSCF – DRUCKENMILLER FELLOWSHIP AWARDS
59
FELLOWS SUPPORTED SINCE THE PROGRAM’S INCEPTION
at
16
INSTITUTIONS
in
3
COUNTRIES
60
50
NEWLY AWARDED FELLOWS
NUMBER OF FELLOWS
40
30
20
10
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
YEAR
47
ALUMNI FELLOWS at CURRENTLY BASED
35
INSTITUTIONS
in
13
COUNTRIES
INCLUDING:
United States, China, Italy, Canada, Spain, Israel, Germany, Austria, Qatar, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, The Netherlands
27
ALUMNI FELLOWS HOLD INDEPENDENT POSITIONS
58%
OF ALUMNI HOLD INDEPENDENT PROFESSORSHIPS
38%
OF ALUMNI ARE BASED AT INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
I M PAC T
OUR FELLOWS HAVE PUBLISHED OVER
900
PAPERS
IN TOP SCIENTIFIC JOURNALS INCLUDING:
22
PAPERS
16
PAPERS
44
16
PAPERS
PAPERS
44
PAPERS
16
PAPERS
RE S EA RCH AR EAS BY T H E N U M B E R S
3%
3% 25%
19%
STEM CELL RESEARCH AREAS
5%
9% 5% 31%
AREAS OF STUDY Autoimmune Diseases
Cancer & Blood Diseases
Cardiovascular Diseases
Diabetes
Liver Diseases
Neurodegenerative Diseases
Stem Cell Biology
Tissue Engineering
N YS C F I N N OVATO R S • Maria Barna • Kristen Brennand • Valentina Greco Mitchell Guttman • Jacob Hanna • Justin Ichida • Malin Parmar • Sergiu Pasca Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins • Jay Rajagopal • Kristy Red-Horse • Takanori Takebe • Louis Vermeulen Brian Wainger • Feng Zhang • NYSCF – Rober tson Neuroscience Investigators • Hillel Adesnik Stephen Brohawn • Edward Chang • Winrich Frewiald • Lisa Giocomo • Daniel Huber Zahcary Knight • Maria Lehtinen • Dragana Rogulja • Gregory Scherrer • Kay M. Tye Melissa Warden • Ilana Witten • Claire Wyart • Michael Yartsev • NYSCF – Rober tson Investigator Alumni Paola Arlotta • Deepta Bhattacharya • Ed Boyden • Shuibing Chen • Dieter Egli Christopher Gregg • Christopher Harvey • Takaki Komiyama • Gabsang Lee • Michael A. Long Gaby Maimon • Ravi Majeti • Alexander Meissner • Derrick Rossi • Vanessa Ruta • Paul J. Tesar Marius Wernig • NYSCF Research Institute Investigators • Valentina Fossati • Bjarki Johannesson Daniel Paull • Scott Noggle • NYSCF – Ralph Lauren Investigator • Giuseppe Maria de Peppo NYSCF – Helmsley Stem Cell Investigator Alumni • Valentina Fossati • Darja Marolt NYSCF – Dr uckenmiller Fellows • Laura Andres-Martin • Dafne Campigli Di Giammartino Tae Wan Kim • Hongda Li • Benjamin Lin • Raphael Lis • Ying Liu • Maria Maryanovich Sangbum Park • Brett Shook • Julia TCW • NYSCF – Dr uckenmiller Fellowship Alumni Sriram Bandi • Zhongwei Cao • Ting Chen • Elisa Cimetta • Dilek Colak • Francesco Paolo Di Giorgio Raffaella Di Micco • Bi-Sen Ding • Panos Douvaras • Dieter Egli • Samantha England • Elena Ezhkova Christopher Fasano • Nuria Flames • Valentina Fossati • Alexandre Gaspar Maia • Tamar Hermesh Ya-Chieh Hsu • Sarah Xuelian Huang • Justin Ichida • Keiichi Inoue • Daylon James Bjarki Johannesson • Natalie Kim • Evangelos Kiskinis • Fabien Lafaille • Dung-Fang Lee Gabsang Lee • Larry Luchsinger • Darja Marolt • Ian Martin • Maitane Ortiz-Virumbrales Dominik Paquet • Sandra Pinho • Christophe Raynaud • Pantelis Rompolas • Marco Seandel Jae-won Shim • Shivatra Noi Talchai • Wee-Wei Tee • Maya Tevlin • Maria Themeli Sjoukje van der Stegen • George Kai Wang • Yingying Zhang • Giovanni Zito • Oren Ziv NYSCF – Rober tson Stem Cell Pr ize Recipients • Peter J. Coffey • Franziska Michor Kazutoshi Takahashi • Paul J. Tesar • Amy J. Wagers • Marius Wernig • Feng Zhang NYSCF Research Institute • Kennedy Agwamba • Lauren Bauer Vensand • Katie Brenner Geoff Buckley-Herd • Sean DesMarteau • Panos Douvaras • Patrick Fenton • Eliana Forero Yosif Ganat • Jordan Goldberg • Jenna Hall • Ya-Chu Juliana Hsu • Christopher Hunter Tanya Jain • Travis Kroeker • Ilya Kruglikov • Gregory Lallos • Hector Martinez • Barry McCarthy Paul McCoy • Frederick Monsma • Dorota Moroziewicz • Melissa Nirenberg • Reid Otto Brandon Pearl • Katie Reggio • Tomasz Rusielewicz • Ana Sevilla • Martina Sladkova Bruce Sun • Edmund Tam • Cecile Terrenoire • Rebecca Tibbetts • Matthew Zimmer NYSCF – Rober tson Stem Cell Investigators
The New York Stem Cell Foundation
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