Newswise — More than 1,900 of the world's leading stem cell researchers gathered in Cairns, Australia for the 5th ISSCR Annual Meeting this June. The conference marked the first ISSCR meeting held outside of North America and had the strongest worldwide representation in ISSCR history with 73 percent of attendees from outside North America.
Dr. Andrew Elefanty, the 5th ISSCR Annual Meeting's program committee chair and senior research fellow at Monash University in Australia, commented on the success of the meeting. "Global attendance was excellent. We were delighted to see such a strong representation from the Asia/Pacific region, a trend we hope will continue. The strength of the program really lies in the quality of the presentations and the willingness of the international stem cell community to support the meeting."
In addition, an unprecedented 297 travel fellowships totaling $297,000 were awarded by the ISSCR, the New York Stem Cell Foundation (NYSCF), The California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) and the Australian Stem Cell Centre (ASCC) in order to assist with travel costs associated with attending the meeting. A full list of Travel Award Recipients is available at http://www.isscr.org/meetings/travel_awards.htm.
Other honors included the 2007 Junior Investigator Poster Awards, which are given for outstanding posters presented by junior investigators. This year, winners received a $250 grant courtesy of Invitrogen Corporation, a one-year subscription to Cell Stem Cell, the official journal of the ISSCR, and are offered complimentary registration to the 6th ISSCR Annual Meeting to be held in Philadelphia.
The following six Junior Investigator Poster Award winners were chosen out of 612 applicants: Matthew G. Guenther, Whitehead Institute, USADaniel Kirouac, University of Toronto, CanadaIsabelle M.A. Lombaert, University Medical Center Groningen, The NetherlandsDaniel M. Messerschmidt, Max-Planck Institute of Immunobiology, GermanyJonathan C. Niclis, Monash University, AustraliaFumitaka Osakada, RIKEN CDB, Japan
The 6th ISSCR Annual Meeting will be held June 11-14, 2008, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia. For more information about ISSCR and future ISSCR meetings, visit http://www.isscr.org.
The International Society for Stem Cell Research is an independent, nonprofit membership organization established to promote and foster the exchange and dissemination of information and ideas relating to stem cells, to encourage the general field of research involving stem cells and to promote professional and public education in all areas of stem cell research and application.
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