Stem cells: Aging & Cancer

Content: 

12^th GSCN Conference Report 2024

• When stem cells age: Ways to rejuvenate
• Stem cells and blood cancer: Order in chaos
• Stem cells and tumors: Strategies against the master of metarmophosis
• GCT: Autoimmune disease succesfully treated with CAR-T cells
• GCT: Master plan to bring innovations to patients faster
• BIH: BeCAT - Interview with Annette Künkele-Langer
• Portrait of an institute: MHH

Read it online ↓ here (with download link).
Read the German version ↓ here (with download link).

Direct Link to the GSCN Conference website: gscn-conferences.org/gscn-conference-2025

GSCN Conference: Program :
The GSCN Conference is from 15 until 17 Oct. 2025 with the high ranked key note speakers Hongkui Deng (Beijing, China), Jacob Hanna (Rehovot, Israel), Timm Schroeder (Basel, Switzerland), Viviane Tabar (New York City, USA), Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla (Munich, Germany) and Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann (Göttingen, Germany).  Check out the program here.

GSCN Conference: Early bird tickets and early hotel booking:
Secure an early bird ticket – it is worth it: Register here and save on your conference ticket. Because: Munich and even Garching (part of Munich) and Neuherberg are hot spots on the scale of booking prices. You might want to check out the hotels and book a room and save on early booking availabilities – the GSCN prepared a list with hotel recommendations here. 

GSCN Conference: Special travel awards:
Good news for the GSCN Conference – there is a special travel award to the GSCN Conference with an extended deadline. You can apply for the GSCN Conference Travel Award until 7 July 2025 – find all information here.

GSCN Conference I: non-PI Meeting:
Would you like to trouble-shoot with peers from other institutes? Join the non-PI meeting on 14 Oct. 2025 at the Helmholtz Center Munich in Neuherberg. Participation is free of charge. You can register here – since the number of participants is limited to 25, you might want to register rather soon. The GSCN covers the catering at the meeting, one overnight stay in München/Neuherberg (max 80 €) and a dinner for the participants on 14 Oct. 2025.

Are you looking for advice about career decisions? Struggle between academia or industry?
BECOME A GSCN MENTEE!

The GSCN Mentoring Program aims to support young scientists up to the level of young group leaders in their search for a career path that fits the personal visions, abilities and needs. This one-year-mentoring-program offers a one-of-a-kind chance to obtain orientation and guidance during the decision making process by established stem cell researchers in Germany and experts working outside academia in related fields such as industry, communication, or science management.

• One year tandem progam with experienced scientists (stem cell field), 3-4 meetings per year
• Workshops and training
• Network!

Application deadline is 30 June 2025 - find all information here

You can suggest an GSCN Awardee for 2025-26 - deadline for the nomination is 16 June 2025. Please propose in the categories below.
A top-class commission will support the GSCN in choosing this year´s awardees. The three ­awardees will give a presentation in the Presidential Symposium on Thursday, 16 October 2025 at 14:00 – 16:15 h in the Plenary Hall.

The awards are:

GSCN 2025 Young Investigator Award
Please suggest a proposal here 

GSCN 2025 Hilde Mangold Award
Please suggest a proposal here

GSCN 2025 Publication of the Year Award
Please suggest a publication and author via mail to office@gscn.org.

Save the date: the 2025 GSCN Conference will take place at Helmholtz Munich in Neuherberg from 15 - 17 October 2025.

What a great conference: The 12^th GSCN Conference took place in Jena from 25 until 27 Sept. 2024. With around 340 participants, 160 posters, 9 keynotes, 2 get together and a big industry exhibition, it was a busy, exciting and vivid meeting. Lots of ongoing discussions, networking and inspiring conversations over the three days. Find the foto gallery of the whole three days of the conference with dowlnload option here.

The global stem cell economy

Content: 
- The global stem cell economy:
   - Europe
   - North America
   - Asia-Pacific 
- Portrait Georg Duda: Leveraging bioengineering for advanced and sustainable medicine
- White Rhinos: Stem cell technologies - a backbone of science-based species conservation
- and more articles ...

Read it online here (with download link).
Read the German version  here (with download link).