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The future is now: Vector bioengineering and preclinical models as critical components of translational cell and gene therapy programs

Next CorEuStem webinar will be held November 9th, 2023, 11.00 – 12:00 (CET). Please register here to attend. Speaker: Dr. Leszek LisowskiChildren’s Medical Research Institute (CMRI)The University of Sydney, Australia Dr. Leszek Lisowski is a world vectorology expert with over 15 years of experience in developing and manufacturing viral vectors for human gene therapy. Currently,...

Please join us for the next webinar on “Preclinical testing of CRISPR therapeutics for inherited diseases”. Date: October 6th , 14.00h -15.00h (Berlin time) Speaker: Dr. rer. nat. Lukas Cyganek University Medical Center Göttingen, Germany Please register to attend at:  https://forms.gle/zTPgawWQb9ryAdWC8 Participation by Zoom: To ensure that the meeting is accessible for all CorEuStem members. If you would...

Last weekend, on 9-10 September, it took place the first edition of CorEuStem hands-on iPSC training school at Erasmus Medical Center, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The course covered two days of talks and laboratory practice using human iPSC. Students from seven different countries learned how to thaw, split and cryopreserve iPSC, as well as manually...

We invite all CorEuStem members to participate in a two-day online seminar on the Fundamentals of human iPSC culture, September 9-10, 2023. Please register here to receive a Zoom link:  https://forms.gle/JDVGf2AqC96S3k8J8 The seminar program can be fond here.

23 – 24 August 2023 Gene-editors from the CorEuStem network gathered for two days, discussing post-edit quality controls and molecular karyotyping cut-off strategies. The meeting took place at the Lund Stem Cell Centre, thanks to the organising skills of the CAGT team and WG2.

The Standardising Stem Cell Core Facilities in Europe – a CorEuStem Symposium took place at Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal, from 27th to 28th April 2023. The meeting gathered experts from the different core facilities in Europe and covered the latest advances in human stem cells and gene editing technologies. More than 80 participants members attended from CorEuStem COST Action. The two-day...

We are thrilled to announce upcoming CorEuStem hands-on training/workshop on induced pluripotent stem cell derivation & culturing. During this training, you will learn the mostly used techniques and protocols for generating induced pluripotent stem cells. Upon completion of this training, participants will: Target audience: PhD Students, Postdocs, Early Career Researchers, Principal Investigators, Investigators, Technicians (CorEuStem members...

Next CorEuStem webinar will be held May 5th, 2023, 14.00 – 15:00 (CET) via zoom about Cell painting technologies. Please register to attend at: https://forms.gle/e7V3STURqREv9XcPA Speaker: Dr. Jens Peter von KriesHead of the Technology Platform for Drug Discovery and Genome-wide RNA Interference Leibniz-Forschungs Institute for Molecular Pharmacology Berlin, Germany. The Screening Unit (co-financed by FMP...

CorEuStem COST Action and the Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG) will held an advanced hands-on course on Brain Organoids that will take place at CRG, Barcelona, Spain, from 1-6th of July 2023. The course has no registration fees and has spots for 16 students. Accepted students to participate in the course will have to pay their own...

Please join us for the next webinar on “Assigning function to genes by unbiased CRISPR screens”. Date: 22nd March, 2023, 14.00 CET Institute of Biochemistry II , University Hospital Frankfurt Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Manuel Kaulich is a functional and computational geneticist at the Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany. He was born in Berlin...

The second CorEuStem newsletter just came out highlighting pasts and upcoming meeting from the network, training activities organised by our WGs and updates on the STSM among other things. Download the full newsletter here:

The follow up session for “Basic training on maintenance of Pluripotent Stem Cells” will take place on 30 November 2022 at 11:00 CET. During this session, you get the possibility to ask your questions or troubleshot culture methods and protocols. Register here to attend this training. Please take a moment to fill our survey and...