07 May 2026: 16:15 – 17:45
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External Speaker: Claudia Spits (Free University Brussels, VUB, Belgium)
Title: Aneuploidy modulates cell fate decisions by pluripotent stem cells
Local Speaker: Harald Stachelscheid (Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) & Charité Berlin)
Title: StemCNV-check: a pipeline for human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC) genomic integrity control using SNP array data and copy number variant scoring
Upcoming GSCC:
04 June 2026
Peter Loskill (University of Tübingen)
Nikolaus Rajewsky (MDC-BIMSB, Berlin)
In July and August is GSCC summerbreak.
The next GSCN Conference will be in Berlin at the TU Berlin from 9 – 11 Sept. 2026!
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Three GSCN Awards will be presented during the GSCN Conference 2026:
GSCN 2026 Young Investigator Award
GSCN 2026 Hilde Mangold Award
GSCN Publication of the Year Award 2026
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The awardees will give a lecture on 10 September 2026 at the Presidential Symposium in Berlin at the GSCN Conference.
Find more information about the GSCN Awards and the former GSCN Awardees here.
Become Mentee of the GSCN Mentoring Program 2026/27 – deadline for application is 31 May 2026.
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Comment in Nature Cell Biology
published: 06 November 2025
Bridging science, society and policy with the German Stem Cell Network
The German Stem Cell Network (GSCN) connects science, society and policy to advance stem cell research. Since 2013, it has promoted innovation, ethics and public engagement. Recognizing Europe’s need for stronger collaboration, the GSCN aims to build a pan-European network to enhance research and translation, and to support young scientists.
Authors: Daniel Besser, Sina Bartfeld, Stefanie Mahler
Direct Link to the GSCN Conference website and the conference pictures: gscn-conferences.org/gscn-conference-2025
A superb meeting: The 13th GSCN Conference (15 until 17 Oct. 2025) was a scientific highlight and an outstanding networking event: With the high ranked key note speakers Viviane Tabar (New York City, USA), Timm Schroeder (Basel, Switzerland), Jacob Hanna (Rehovot, Israel), Wolfram-Hubertus Zimmermann (Göttingen, Germany), Hongkui Deng (Beijing, China), and Maria-Elena Torres-Padilla (Munich, Germany), three GSCN Awardees, 54 talks, three symposia, two poster sessions, a new record with 500 participants, two networking events, a non-PI Meeting, a computational workshop – and a great atmosphere. Thank you all for being part in the conference and in our network – and see you next year in Berlin (9 – 11 Sept. 2026).
Content:
12th GSCN Conference Report 2024
Read it online ↓ here (with download link).
Read the German version ↓ here (with download link).
The “GSCN 2025 Young Investigator Award” goes to Aydan Bulut-Karslıoğlu of the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Genetics in Berlin.
The GSCN 2025 Hilde Mangold Award goes to Michaela Frye from the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg.
The GSCN Publication of the Year Award 2025 goes to Bryce Lim, Aryan Kamal, … , Judith Zaugg and Moritz Mall. They receive the “GSCN 2025 Publication of the Year Award” for their joint publication “Active repression of cell fate plasticity by PROX1 safeguards hepatocyte identity and prevents liver tumorigenesis” in the journal Nature Genetics 57, 668–679 (2025).
Find the GSCN press release Molecular Insights into Early Development and Cancer Formation here
Finden Sie die GSCN Pressemitteilung Molekulare Einblicke in frühe Entwicklung und Tumorentstehung hier
Please find all information here.
All information here
The association ‘Development’ is now accepting applications for our ‘Pathway to Independence’ programme, aiming to support a small number of researchers in the fields of developmental biology, stem cells or regeneration as they transition from postdoc to independent group leader. It’s the fourth year that we’ve run our successful programme, which offers mentoring, training, profile-raising and network opportunities. For more details on the programme, please visit our journal website: ➚ https://journals.biologists.com/dev/pages/pifellows.
The aim of this funding program is to support the translation of research results in the field of GCT and thus contribute to the implementation of a ➚ National Strategy for Gene- and Cell-based Therapies (GCT) in Germany.
The DLR Projekträger (Project Managment Agency at German Aerospace Center) has announced the ➚ funding opportunities (DE).
All funded projects in the frame of the GCT can be found here: ➚ DLR: Gene and cell therapies: Prospects for tailored treatment & SPARK: GCT projects
For further information, please refer to the ➚ announcement (DE) and the publication ↓ National Strategy for Gene- and Cell-based Therapies in Germany (↓ Nationalen Strategie für Gen- und zellbasierte Therapien (DE)) from the BIH.
Pluripotent stem-cell-based screening uncovers sildenafil as a mitochondrial disease therapy (GSCN)
Viagra compound may hold promise for treating fatal genetic disease
Source: Cell, Science 11.03.2026
Stammzellforschung: Großes Potenzial trifft auf rechtliche Hemmnisse (DE; GSCN)
Source: Deutsches Ärzteblatt, 09.01.2026
In Focus: Obstacles and opportunities for research in Germany (EN/DE; GSCN)
Im Fokus: Forschungshemmnisse und -chancen in Deutschland
Source: Gentechnologiebericht.de, 10.12.2025
Type 1 diabetes cured in mice with gentle blood stem-cell and pancreatic islet transplant
Source: Stanford Medicine, 18.11.2025
Bridging science, society and policy with the German Stem Cell Network (GSCN)
Source: Nature.com, ShareIt link (read only), 06.11.2025
Eleventh report by the German Federal Government on the implementation of the Stem Cell Act (DE)
Elfter Erfahrungsbericht der Bundesregierung über die Durchführung des Stammzellgesetzes
Source: Deutscher Bundestag (21/2560), 03.11.2025
Update of ISSCR Guidelines for Stem Cell Research and Clinical Translation in the section on stem cell–based embryo models.
Source: ISSCR.org, 14.08.2025 How immune cells communicate to fight infections and cancer (GSCN)
Source: bihealth.org, 06.08.2025
