The second international congress of West Asian and North African (WANA)

The second international congress of West Asian and North African (WANA)

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 

17th Congress on Stem Cell Biology and Technology “Virtual”

17th Congress on Stem Cell Biology and Technology “Virtual”

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

16th Royan Virtual International Congress on Stem Cell Biology and Technology

16th Royan Virtual International Congress on Stem Cell Biology and Technology

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.

Expansion of early cardiovascular progenitor cells in vitro

Expansion of early cardiovascular progenitor cells in vitro

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