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THE NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMScientists leading their generation in stem cell research

The mission of The New York Stem Cell Foundation is to accelerate cures for the major diseases of our time

through stem cell research.

Cover: (L) Panos Douvaras, PhD, 2014 NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow, and(R) Maitane Ortiz-Virumbrales, PhD, 2014 NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellow

The NYSCF Fellowship Program

supports postdoctoral scientists at an early stage of their careers. These young

researchers hold the potential to accelerate treatments and cures. The

Program provides support for:

• NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellows

The NYSCF Investigator Program

supports early career scientists, creating and promoting a global

community of leading stem cell and neuroscience researchers. The Program provides support for:

• NYSCF – Robertson Investigators• NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize Recipients

The NYSCF Research Institute

laboratories conduct the most advanced human stem cell research and develop pioneering technologies for the field. Independent and privately funded,

NYSCF takes a “team science” approach to advancing cures, collaborating with leading

global partners to unravel the root causes of disease through

the power of stem cells.


laboratories conduct the most advanced human stem cell research and develop pioneering technologies for the field. Independent and privately funded,

NYSCF takes a “team science” approach to advance cures, collaborating with leading

global partners to unravel the root causes of disease through

the power of stem cells.

The New York Stem Cell Foundation Fellowship Program supports at critical

junctures in their careers the most talented young postdoctoral scientists in the pursuit of innovative and groundbreaking stem cell

research. The Program provides support for the NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellowship Awards.

Fellows are based at premier academic and medical institutions. All fellows receive an

annual stipend and additional support. NYSCF fosters its community of young scientists

through scientific retreats, an annual conference, and other events.

Support for the program is provided by Fiona and Stan Druckenmiller.

NYSCFFELLOWSHIP

PROGRAM

A global community of over 140 scientists leading their generation in cutting-edge research

NYSCF INNOVATOR COMMUNITY

TAE WAN KIM, PHDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterFaculty Sponsor: Lorenz Studer, MDStudying Cell Replacement Therapy to Treat Parkinson’s Disease

Kim received his PhD from Seoul National University in Seoul, Korea. Previously, he has received the Seoul Science Fellowship, the Korea Research Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, and Sanofi Young Scientist Award. He has published in Cell Stem Cell, eLife, and Stem Cells.

LAURA ANDRES-MARTIN, PHDWeill Cornell Medical CollegeFaculty Sponsor: Marco Seandel MD, PhDUsing Stem Cells to Understand How Mutations Can Cause Diseases

Andres-Martin received her BS and PhD from the University of Salamanca, Spain. She completed her thesis work at The Institute of Functional Biology and Genomics, Spain as a recipient of a fellowship from the Junta de Castilla y Leon. She has published in Stem Cell Reports, The Journal of Neuroscience, and Andrology.

BENJAMIN LIN, PHDNew York University School of MedicineFaculty Sponsor: Ruth Lehmann, PhDVisualizing the Movement of Stem Cells for Potential Use in Regenerative Medicine

Lin received his BS from the Johns Hopkins University and his PhD from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He previously received a Paul Ehrlich Young Investigator Award. He has published in PNAS and Nature Communications.

DAFNE CAMPIGLI DI GIAMMARTINO, PHDWeill Cornell Medical CollegeFaculty Sponsor: Effie Apostolou, PhDUnderstanding Cellular Identity for Applications in Regenerative Medicine

Campigli Di Giammartino received her BS and MS from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel and her PhD from Columbia University. She has published in Molecular Cell and Genes and Development.

YING LIU, PHDWeill Cornell Medical CollegeFaculty Sponsor: Shahin Rafii, MDExploring the Role of Key Genes in Stem Cell Regulation

Liu received her BS from Nankai University, China and her PhD from Weill Cornell Medical College. She has published in Nature Communications, Nature, and Nature Genetics.

HONGDA LI, PHDThe Rockefeller UniversityFaculty Sponsor: Joseph G. Gleeson, MDModeling a Neurodevelopmental Disorder Using Stem Cells

Li received his BS from Fudan University, China, and his PhD from University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has received several awards, including a fellowship from UW-Madison Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Center, The Schilimgen Award, and Wisconsin Distinguished Graduate Award. He has published in Nature Neuroscience and Nature Communications.

2016 NYSCF – DRUCKENMILLER FELLOWS 2015 NYSCF – DRUCKENMILLER FELLOWS

PANOS DOUVARAS, PHDThe New York Stem Cell Foundation Research InstituteFaculty Sponsor: Valentina Fossati, PhDUnderstanding Multiple Sclerosis Using Patient-Specific Cells

Douvaras received his BSc at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece and his MSc and PhD at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Previously, he received the Development & Alumni Small Project Grant from the University of Edinburgh and the Symington Bequest Award from the Anatomical Society of Great Britain & Ireland. He has published in Stem Cells and Stem Cell Research.

ALEXANDRE GASPAR MAIA, PHDIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiFaculty Sponsor: Emily Bernstein, PhDUnderstanding Cellular Reprogramming and Cancer Progression

Gaspar Maia received his BS from University of Porto, Portugal. He joined the PhD program at University of Coimbra, Portugal and did his thesis work at University of California, San Francisco. Previously, he received a fellowship from the Department of Defense. He has published in Nature, Cell Stem Cell, and Nature Communications.

MAITANE ORTIZ-VIRUMBRALES, PHDIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiFaculty Sponsor: Samuel E. Gandy MD, PhDExploring Effective Personalized Treatments for Alzheimer’s disease

Oritz-Virumbrales received her BSc and PhD from Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain and did her thesis work at the National Center for Biotechnology, Spain. Previously, she received a grant from the Spanish Ministry for Education and Science, and was awarded a fellowship by the Comunidad de Madrid and the European Social Fund. She has published in The Journal of Immunology and PLoS One.

DOMINIK PAQUET, PHDThe Rockefeller UniversityFaculty Sponsor: Marc Tessier-Lavigne, PhDUnderstanding the Molecular Mechanisms of Nerve Cell Degeneration in Alzheimer’s disease

Paquet received his BS from the University of Tübingen, Germany, his MS from University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, and his PhD from Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. He has received several awards including a fellowship from the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Leda-Hanin Award and the VERUM Award. He has published in The Journal of Clinical Investigation, The Journal of Neuroscience, and PNAS.

SJOUKJE VAN DER STEGEN, PHDMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer CenterFaculty Sponsor: Michel Sadelain MD, PhDUsing Stem Cells to Generate Cancer-Fighting T Cells

Van der Stegen received her BSc and MSc from Maastricht University, and her PhD from King’s College London. She received the Dutch Cancer Society student travel award and Best Oral Presentation at the King’s College London’s Division of Cancer Studies PhD Symposium. She has published in The Journal of Immunology, The Journal of Biological Methods, and Nature Reviews Drug Discovery.

BRETT SHOOK, PHDYale UniversityFaculty Sponsor: Valerie Horsley, PhDUnderstanding How Fat Cells Contribute to Wound Healing

Shook received his BS from the Pennsylvania State University and his PhD from the University of Connecticut. He received the Society for Investigative Dermatology travel fellowship. He has published in The Journal of Neuroscience and Aging Cell.

2015 NYSCF – DRUCKENMILLER FELLOWS 2014 NYSCF – DRUCKENMILLER FELLOWS

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

The Rockefeller University

Albert Einstein College of Medicine


Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University

Harvard University


Harvard University

Harvard University

New York Neural Stem Cell Institute

Johns Hopkins University

Columbia University

Weill Cornell Medical College/ Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Memorial Sloan KetteringCancer Center

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Weill Cornell Medical College

Columbia University


National Institute of Biological Sciences, China

Institute of Biomedicine of Valencia, Spain

University of Padova, Italy

King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Thailand

Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research, Switzerland

The NYSCF Research Institute/Columbia University


University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany

University of Southern California

New York Neural Stem Cell Institute

Oregon Health & Science University

University of Texas, McGovern Medical School

Columbia University


Soonchunhyang University, South Korea

Johns Hopkins University


Ludwig Botzmann Institute, Austria

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

ELENA EZHKOVAAssistant Professor

SRIRAM BANDI

TING CHEN

NURIA FLAMES

ELISA CIMETTA

SHIVATRA NOI TALCHAI

FRANCESCO PAOLO DI GIORGIO

DIETER EGLI

VALENTINA FOSSATI

NATALIE KIM

JUSTIN ICHIDA

CHRISTOPHER FASANO

IAN MARTIN

DUNG-FANG LEE

KEIICHI INOUE

MARCO SEANDEL

JAE-WON SHIM

GABSANG LEE

DAYLON JAMES

DARJA MAROLT

Research Scientist

Assistant Investigator

Principal Investigator

Assistant Professor


Laboratory Head

Senior Research Fellow/Assistant Professor

NYSCF Senior Investigator

Senior Scientist

Assistant Professor

Director of Research & Development

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Associate Research Scientist

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Assistant Professor

Group Leader

YEAR NAME& CURRENT TITLE

FELLOWSHIP HELD AT:

CURRENT INSTITUTION

2011

2012

2013

2014


University of Rochester Medical Center

New York University School of Medicine

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center



Yale University




New York University School of Medicine

Columbia University


Columbia University


Harvard University


The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel

Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar

Harvard University

Yale University


University of Calgary, Canada

The San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Italy

Vumc Cancer Center Amsterdam,Netherlands



University of Pennsylvania


The Feinstein Institute for Biomedical Research

Tel Aviv University, Israel

A*STAR-IMCB

Columbia University


Columbia University

Harvard University

RainDance Technologies


Bar-Ilan University, Israel

Columbia University

Sidra Medical and Research Center,Qatar

Northwestern University

Rizzoli Orthopedic Institute, Italy

DILEK COLAK

SAMANTHA ENGLAND

RAFFAELLA DI MICCO

MARIA THEMELI

BI-SEN DING

FABIEN LAFAILLE

PANTELIS ROMPOLAS

ZHONGWEI CAO

MAYA TEVLIN

TAMAR HERMESH

WEE-WEI TEE

LARRY LUCHSINGER

BJARKI JOHANESSON

GEORGE KAI WANG

YA-CHIEH HSU

YINGYING ZHANG

SANDRA PINHO

OREN ZIV

SARAH X.L. HUANG

CHRISTOPHE RAYNAUD

EVANGELOS KISKINIS

GIOVANNI ZITO

Assistant Professor

Research Technician


Senior Research Fellow

Assistant Professor

Postdoctoral Fellow

Assistant Professor

Instructor in Medicine

Research Scientist

Accelerated Medical Program Student



NYSCF Investigator


Assistant Professor

Staff Scientist

Postdoctoral Fellow

Lab Manager

Postdoctoral Research Scientist

Staff Scientist

Assistant Professor

Research Associate

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai/The NYSCF Research InstituteIcahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

NYSCF FELLOWSHIP ALUMNI

42 ALUMNI FELLOWS CURRENTLY BASED

1432 INSTITUTIONS

COUNTRIES

at

in

OF ALUMNI ALREADYHOLD INDEPENDENT

PROFESSORSHIPS

60%783TOTAL

PUBLICATIONS

2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016

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10

YEAR (CLASS)

NEWLY AWARDED FELLOWS

55 OUTSTANDING FELLOWS SUPPORTED

SINCE THE PROGRAM’S INCEPTION

OF ALUMNI ARE ACTIVELY PURSUING THEIR

SCIENTIFIC CAREERS

100%

1. Drs. Valentina Fossati, Pantelis Rompolas, and Tamar Hermesh;2. Drs. Dafne Campigli Di Giammartino, Wee-Wei Tee, and Brett Shook;3. Drs. Bjarki Johannesson, Panos Douvaras, and Maitane Ortiz-Virumbrales, Susan L. Solomon, CEO, Drs. Maria Themeli, Dominik Paquet, Alexandre Gaspar Maia, Zhongwei Cao; 4. Dr. Bi-Sen Ding; 5. Dr. Ya-Chieh Hsu;6. Drs. Sandra Pinho, Sjoukje van der Stegen, and Larry Luchsinger

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3

4 5 6

IMPACT NYSCF INNOVATORS

The New York Stem Cell Foundation

NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Investigators • Paola Arlotta Deepta Bhattacharya • Kristen Brennand • Dieter Egli • Valentina Greco Mitchell Guttman • Jacob Hanna • Justin Ichida • Gabsang Lee Ravi Majeti • Alexander Meissner • Jennifer E. Phillips-Cremins Jay Rajagopal • Kristy Red-Horse • Feng Zhang NYSCF – Robertson Neuroscience Investigators • Hillel Adesnik Ed Boyden • Edward Chang • Winrich Freiwald • Christopher Gregg Lisa Giocomo • Christopher Harvey • Daniel Huber • Zachary Knight Takaki Komiyama • Michael A. Long • Gaby Maimon Dragana Rogulja • Vanessa Ruta • Kay M. Tye • Melissa Warden NYSCF – Robertson Investigator Alumni • Shuibing Chen Derrick Rossi • Paul Tesar • Marius Wernig • NYSCF – Investigators Valentina Fossati • Bjarki Johannesson • Aiqun Li • Scott Noggle NYSCF – Ralph Lauren Investigator • Giuseppe Maria de Peppo NYSCF – Helmsley Stem Cell Investigator Alumni • Valentina Fossati Darja Marolt • NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellows • Laura Andres-Martin Dafne Campigli Di Giammartino • Panos Douvaras Alexandre Gaspar Maia • Tae Wan Kim • Hongda Li • Benjamin Lin Ying Liu • Maitane Ortiz-Virumbrales • Dominik Paquet • Brett Shook Sjoukje van der Stegen • NYSCF – Druckenmiller Fellowship Alumni Sriram Bandi • Zhongwei Cao • Ting Chen • Elisa Cimetta Dilek Colak • Francesco Paolo Di Giorgio • Raffaella Di Micco Bi-Sen Ding • Dieter Egli • Samantha England • Elena Ezhkova Christopher A. Fasano • Nuria Flames • Valentina Fossati Tamar Hermesh • Ya-Chieh Hsu • Sarah X.L. Huang • Justin Ichida Keiichi Inoue • Daylon James • Bjarki Johannesson • Natalie Kim Evangelos Kiskinis • Fabien Lafaille • Dung-Fang Lee • Gabsang Lee Larry Luchsinger • Darja Marolt • Ian Martin • Sandra Pinho Christophe Raynaud • Marco Seandel • Jae-won Shim Shivatra Noi Talchai • Wee-Wei Tee • Maya Tevlin • George Kai Wang Yingying Zhang • Giovanni Zito • Oren Ziv NYSCF – Robertson Stem Cell Prize Recipients • Peter J. Coffey Franziska Michor • Kazutoshi Takahashi • Amy J. Wagers • Marius Wernig

NYSCF INNOVATORS

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