The National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia is delighted to announce that cord blood expert Dr Ngaire Elwood has joined our Board of Directors. Here is a story from one of our past newsletters about Ngaire and her...

You, me and ABC's The Science Show host Robyn Williams - we all started life as a single stem cell. Our 2017 Metcalf Prize winner Jessica Mar was a guest on ABC RN's The Science Show, sharing her career journey from...

A team of Australian and Dutch researchers have successfully built a mini-kidney from stem cells and transplanted it into a mouse where it has matured into tissue with blood vessels, which is capable of filtering blood....

Congratulations to Associate Professor Megan Munsie, who has been announced as the winner of the 2018 Public Service Award from the International Society for Stem Cell Research. The award recognises her work promoting public understanding of stem...

Science legend meets the toughest audience—kids and teenagers—at the World Science Festival Brisbane Professor Alan Mackay-Sim Award winning stem cell scientist Alan Mackay-Sim has had a life filled with curiosity, science, a variety of hobbies, and occasional...

Professor Mark Dawson of the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and Associate Professor Jessica Mar of the University of Queensland have both received $50,000 Metcalf Prizes from the National Stem Cell Foundation of Australia in recognition of...

The Therapeutic Goods Administration has announced that 2018 will see long-awaited reforms to the regulation of stem cell therapies in the hope of curtailing unsafe or unproven treatments, and the unethical marketing of them to vulnerable...