Jason Thomson, Research Associate at Yale Stem Cell Center is a prime example of "How Medical Research Is Boosting Connecticut’s Economy"
Sharon Lin, Diane Krause, Stephanie Massaro, and Crew Smith discussing recent lab results
Pumilio1 protein in human embryonic stem cells
Jun Lu and Dan Li operating a robot to do a stem cell screen
Kun-Yong Kim and In-Hyun Park doing neural differentiation to make an in vitro disease model.
Haifan Lin's Lab (Left to Right): Sean Christensen, Haifan Lin, Laurel Lorenz and student discuss stem cell RNA-mediated epigenetic programming. Photo Credit, Michael Marsland.
Expression of transcriptional factor Foxa2 in gastrulation stage embryos
A plate of human embryonic stem cells growing in culture.
Jee-Hee Kim, Andrew Xiao, Steven Reilly, and Tao Wu discussing data.
Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (iPSCs)
Ping-Xia Zhang picking cell colonies at the microscope
Brain organoids generated from human embryonic stem cells. Photo credit: Yangfei Xiang, Ph.D.

Welcome to Yale Stem Cell Center!

The mission of the Yale Stem Cell Center is to advance our understanding of stem cell biology and to harness its potential to improve human health.

Our goals:

Enrich basic understanding of stem and progenitor cells.
Establish interdisciplinary, collaborations to develop stem cell therapies, and translate discoveries to clinical trials.
Address ethical and policy issues.
Foster understanding and awareness of stem cell biology to the public.

Yale Stem Cell Center 10th Annual Retreat

Save the date for the Yale Stem Cell Center 10th Annual Retreat 2018:

November 1-2, 2018 at the Yale's West Campus Conference Center in West Haven, CT

Announcing the Recipients of the Lo Graduate Fellowship

The Stem Cell Center is proud to announce the recipients of Yale Stem Cell Center’s most prestigious graduate award, the Lo Graduate Fellowship:

Xinyue Chen
Kaixuan Lin
Allison Wing

YSCC Videos

State support has played a critical role in the Yale Stem Cell Center's emergence as a national leader in stem cell research.

One of the most critical biological advances in the past decade was the discovery that the introduction of four simple genetic factors can turn a fully mature adult cell back into an embryonic-like state, a process called reprogramming.

Valentina Greco and her research team watch stem cells at work regenerating tissue. Go to http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/health/stem-cell-research-underway-at-yale to see the WTNH coverage of this story.

Yuan Gao, Diane Krause and colleagues discover a link to leukemia by revealing how megakaryocytes get so big.

A March 2012 paper by Yale School of Medicine authors in the journal Developmental Cell elucidates several of the mechanisms that take place to prevent cytokinesis from occurring. These findings are relevant not only to normal hematopoiesis and the maturation process of normal megakaryocytes but also to leukemia. In megakaryoblastic leukemia, for example, cells don't fully mature. The authors are now investigating the link between normal megakaryocytopoiesis and the pathology in megakaryocytic leukemia. Read more...