Select global stem cell research centers

North America

U Washington/Hutchinson Cancer Center *
Oregon Stem Cell Center
U California Davis
U California San Francisco (UCSF)
U California Berkeley
Stanford U
Caltech
U California Los Angeles (UCLA)
U Southern California
Reeve-Irvine Research Center
U California San Diego
Burnham Institute, La Jolla *
Salk Institute, La Jolla
Scripps Res. Institute, La Jolla
Stowers Institute, Missouri
U Minnesota
Mayo Clinic
U Wisconsin *, ***
Northwestern U **
U Michigan *
Case Western R U /Cleveland Clinic
U Pittsburgh
Wake Forest U
Vanderbilt U
U Texas Houston
Baylor U
U Toronto
Robarts Research Inst.
McMaster U, Ontario
Ottawa Health Research Institute
Children's Hospital Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Whitehead Institute
Harvard U
Yale U
U Connecticut
Columbia U
Rockefeller U
Sloan-Kettering Institute
Weill-Cornell Medical College
Mount Sinai School of Medicine *
Albert Einstein College of Medicine *
Rutgers U / UMDNJ
Coriell Institute, New Jersey
Princeton U
Johns Hopkins U
Duke U
National Institutes of Health
U Georgia
U Miami

South America

U São Paulo
Instituto Nacional de Cardiologia Laranjeiras
U Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte

United Kingdom & Republic of Ireland

Hammersmith Hospital, London
Imperial College London
King's College London
Medical Research Council (MRC)
Regenerative Medicine Institute, Galway
Roslin Institute, Edinburgh
U Birmingham
U Cambridge
U College London
U Durham
U Edinburgh
U Glasgow
U Liverpool
U Manchester
U Newcastle
U Oxford
U Sheffield
U York

Continental Europe

Genopole, Evry, France
I-stem, Evry, France
INSERM, Reims, France
IRB, Montpellier, France
Ctr of Regenerative Medicine
Barcelona, Spain
U Valencia, Spain
Geneva U Hospitals, Switzerland
San Raffaele Scientific Institute, Italy
U Dusseldorf, Germany
U Cologne, Germany
Max-Planck Institute, Germany
Fraunhofer Institute, Germany
Hubrecht Laboratory, The Netherlands
Catholic U Leuven, Belgium
Norwegian Center for Stem Cell Research
Odense U Hospital, Denmark
U Goteborg, Sweden
U Lund, Sweden
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Mendel U, Czech Republic
Oulu U, Finland
U Tampere, Finland
U Helsinki, Finland

Mideast

Istanbul Memorial Hospital, Turkey
Hadassah Medical Center, Israel
The Technion, Israel
Jeddah BioCity, Saudi Arabia
Royan Institute, Iran

Asia-Pacific

U Beijing, China
Peking Union Medical College
Stem Cell & Regenerative Medicine Ctr, Beijing
Shanghai Second Medical University
Chinese National Human Genome Center Shanghai
Shanghai Huashan Institute
Xiangya Reproduction & Genetics Hospital, China
Sun Yat-sen U, China
National Health Research Institutes, Taiwan
Biomedical Engineering Center, Taiwan
Seoul National U, Korea
Miz-Medi Medical Research Center, Korea
Maria Biotechnology Institute, Korea
Stem Cell Research Centre, Korea
RIKEN Institute, Japan
Kyoto U, Japan
Center for iPS Cell Research and Application, Japan
Mitsubishi Kagaku Institute, Japan
Keio U, Japan
Osaka U Medical School, Japan
U Hawaii
Genome Institute of Singapore
Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, Singapore
U Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Mahidol U, Thailand
NCBS Bangalore, India
National Centre for Cell Science, India
Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, India

Australia

Australian Stem Cell Centre
Howard Florey Institute
Monash U Stem Cell Labs
Murdoch Childrens Research Institute
NSW Stem Cell Network
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
U Adelaide
U New South Wales
U Queensland
Victor Chang Cardiac Research Institute

*Designated by the US NIH as an Exploratory Center for Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research.
**Designated by the US NIH as a Center of Excellence in Translational Human Stem Cell Research.
*** Designated National Stem Cell Bank by the US NIH.

References

  • US National Institutes of Health
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science - AAAS
  • International Society for Stem Cell Research
  • International Stem Cell Forum
  • International Consortium of Stem Cell Networks - ICSCN
  • European Consortium for Stem Cell Research - EuroStemCell
  • France -- Agence de la biomédecine
  • Danish Stem Cell Research Center
  • East of England Stem Cell Network
  • Scottish Stem Cell Network
  • Stem Cell Network of North Rhine Westphalia Germany
  • Swiss Stem Cell Network
  • Canadian Stem Cell Network
  • Australian Stem Cell Centre
  • Stem Cell Network for the Asia-Pacific Region (SNAP) [website to open April 2008]
  • Singapore Stem Cell Consortium
  • China Stem Cell News
  • Stem Cell Genome Anatomy Projects
  • UK National Stem Cell Network (UKNSCN)
  • Boston Globe, "Countries developing new stem cells," June 2, 2004.

    Resources

    Map is a Mercator projection that exaggerates the size of areas far from the equator.

    Stem Cell Research Centers Map published by:

    Financial Times, Oct. 28, 2004


                 "Global Culture"
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    Nature, Dec. 22, 2005

    Science First Hand, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian branch, forthcoming

    Stem Cell Research Centers Map cited by:

    Global Watch: Stem cell mission to China, Singapore and South Korea, Department of Trade & Industry, United Kingdom, September 2004. PDF

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    Translations of the Stem Cell Research Centers Map:

    Ukrainian translation by Sofya Kravchuk


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    Updated 2/28/12

    William Hoffman - hoffm003@umn.edu

    Disclaimer: This work is a communications project of William Hoffman, a non-faculty employee of the University of Minnesota, and not the University of Minnesota. It is meant to help inform public discussion of stem cell research and human development.


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