Spain’s Ministry of Science and the State Research Agency (AEI) have announced that more than 254 researchers from around the world applied to the Atrae program, an initiative to attract established talent of recognized international prestige to Spain. Vincenzo Calvanese, a 43-year-old researcher originally from Naples, Italy, is one of the foreign researchers who decided […]
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The Blood Stem Cell Identity Lab attended the RegenBell Symposium 2025, which featured an excellent and inspiring scientific program. Chiara delivered an engaging talk highlighting her latest findings on HSC self-renewal mechanisms. Sazia and Flo joined from London and presented their work in poster sessions, fostering valuable exchanges and strengthening collaborations within Barcelona’s stem cell
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Vincenzo, Yun, and Angélica represented the lab at the 2025 meeting of the International Society for Stem Cell Research in Hong Kong. Yun delivered an outstanding poster presentation tracing the developmental journey of hematopoietic stem cells from the fetal liver to the bone marrow, sparking engaging discussions with colleagues. She was honored with a Travel
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Deleted: After pursuing his career in the United Kingdom and the United States, the Italian researcher Vincenzo Calvanese is one of those scientists who has decided to settle in Spain. For the past eight months, he has been leading his own research group focused on adult blood stem cells. He works at the Josep Carreras
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Dr. Júlia Aguadé Gorgorió aim to investigate how the HLF gene regulates both blood and leukaemia stem cells, a pathway toward discovering new cures for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML). Blood stem cells (also known as hematopoietic stem cells, or HSCs) give rise to all the different types of blood cells in the body without becoming
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Dr. Vincenzo Calvanese speaks with passion about his research projects and objectives. Trained in pharmaceutical biotechnologies at the University of Bologna, Italy, he moved to Madrid to learn about the epigenetic differentiation of stem cells at the CNIO and the CNB, where he got his PhD. Later on, Calvanese focused his research on haematopoietic (blood) stem
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UCLA scientists and colleagues have created a first-of-its-kind roadmap that traces each step in the development of blood stem cells in the human embryo, providing scientists with a blueprint for producing fully functional blood stem cells in the lab. The research, published today in the journal Nature, could help expand treatment options for blood cancers
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