Royan institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology (RI-SCBT)
The second international congress of west asian and north african (WANA) countries is going to be held in Isfahan, Iran. The two day congress (10th and 11th of May) will be mostly focused on “Applied Biotechnology”. Interested researchers, students, principle investigators and professors from WANA countries can use the following link for more information: https://royan-edu.ir
Royan Institute holds the 13th international summer school on “Bioinformatics in Biomedical Research”. For more information, please visit www.royan-edu.ir
Looking forward to seeing you at the Summer School!
Royan Institute holds the 12th international E-summer school on “Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products: Application of Biological Sciences”. It is going to be an interesting event with a lot of additional activities such as “The Novel Ideas” contest. For more information, please visit www.royan-edu.ir
Looking forward to seeing you at the Summer School!
Royan Institute is honored to hold 22nd Royan International Twin Congress on September 2021. This event is going to be “Virtual” as last year, to help our scientists stay updated over the pandemic era. It covers very interesting topics in Stem Cell Science and Reproductive Biomedicine. For more information, please visit www.royancongress.com.
Looking forward to seeing you at 22nd Congress
It is a great pleasure to invite you all to attend the 16th Royan Virtual International Congress on Stem Cell Biology and Technology which will be held on September 5-6, 2020. The congress is part of the 5-day virtual Royan International Twin Congress and is accompanied by the 21st Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine.
This event shares an insight into the recent and cutting edge advances in the fields of stem cells and regenerative medicine. The goal is to provide a unique platform for researchers, engineers, clinicians and students to present and exchange break-through ideas to promote interdisciplinary research.
Due to the COVID19 pandemic across the world, the congress has been converted to a fully virtual event. We have invited renowned scientists from different countries around the world. Please visit us at www.royancongress.com to find more information on the speakers, abstract submission and etc.
We look forward to welcome you to this exciting event.
Professor Hossein Baharvand, Director of Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, has been selected as the recipient of prestigious Mustafa Award 2019. This Award is an honor given to distinguished Scientists from Islamic world. He has been acknowledged for his substantial contribution in development of Stem Cell Science in Iran and all over the world. He has established first embryonic stem cell lines from mouse and human in Iran and developed protocols for their differentiation into various cell types with the efforts of his team. Now these cells are available for research as well as clinical application. In the prize ceremony which was held at Vahdat Hall on November 11, Professor Ugur Sahin from Turkey and Professor Ali Khademhosseini from Iran shared the Mustafa Prize in Life & Medical Science and Technology.Prof. Umran S. Inan from Turkey, Professor Hossein Baharvand and Dr. Mohammad Abdolahad from Iran shared the Mustafa Prize in scientists from Islamic countries category of the event.The Mustafa Prize is awarded in five categories of information and communication science and technology, life and medical science and technology, Nano-science and nanotechnology and all areas of science and technology.
A work by Amin Ahmadi et. al., in Kidney research group of Royan Stem Cell Institute was featured by @Cell Therapy News on tweeter. In this study which was published in the current issue of Scientific Reports, they describe the results of cell therapy of in vitrogenerated podocytes in in vivo model of membranous nephropathy. Injury to podocytes is a principle cause of initiation and progression of glomerular diseases that result in proteinuria and decreased function of the kidney. Thus, there is hope that generation and transplantation of podocytes from induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), could potentially be used as a curative treatment for glomerulonephritis caused by podocytes injury and loss. We showed that transplantation of functional iPSCderived podocytes following podocytes depletion results in recruitment of iPSC-derived podocytes within the damaged glomerulus, and leads to attenuation of proteinuria and histological alterations.The link to the paper can be found : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31664077.
A paper recently published by Vahdat et al. in “Scientific Reports” was featured by ESC & iPSC News. In this work from the Cardiovascular Group of Royan Stem Cell Institute, they introduce a defined, simple, and reproducible protocol for long-term expansion, maintenance, and storage of hPSC-derived cardiogenic mesodermal cells (CMCs). They screened some cell signaling factors to develop a chemically defined culture medium. Cultured CMCs expanded for more than 10 passages resulting in >1014 cells, and retained their morphology, molecular pattern, and in vitro differentiation propensity into cardiac lineages over passages. They observed no tumorigenicity, engraftment of the self-renewed cells, and improved cardiac performance after transplantation into rat ischemic hearts. This culture condition is reproducible and capable of transformation to a carrier-free suspension culture, which is required for large-scale production of CMCs. Their results provided a novel approach for long-term self-renewal and maintenance of early cardiac progenitor cells, which is a fundamental step for commercialization, developmental, tissue engineering, and cell-based clinical studies.The link to the paper can be found here: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-52516-8