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Children's Hospital Boston believes that stem cell research holds extraordinary potential for the development of new therapies for the children we treat and for the countless others like them throughout the world. In response to this belief, Children's has established a stem cell program whose sole mission is to explore, understand and translate the promise of stem cells into clinical therapies and treatments.
About the Program
Learn about our mission, facilities, and research groups. 		  How to Help
Find out how you can help to accelerate research and discovery.
Faculty and Staff
Meet the program's faculty and members of its executive committee. 		  Zebrafish Genome Project
Experimental approaches to stem cell research.
micrograph of stem cells hESC Core Facility
Children's centralized source of human ESC lines. 		  Ethical Issues
Discussions that explore ethical and legal considerations.
Affiliate Members
Learn about the stem cell community at Children's. 		  Virtual Stem Cell Lab
Explore the world of stem cell research through this interactive virtual lab.
NEW! REGISTER ON-LINE FOR hESC TRAINING
Training is open to members of laboratories affiliated with Harvard University / the Harvard Stem Cell Institute / Harvard Medical School. Go to "hESC Training" in the hESC Core Profile (Research Underway)
George Daley GEORGE DALEY NAMED HHMI INVESTIGATOR
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute has announced the appointment of Dr. George Daley as an HHMI Investigator. The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is a nonprofit medical research organization dedicated to discovering and disseminating new knowledge in the basic life sciences. Investigators are selected through rigorous national competition, and appointment signals the Institutes' recognition of outstanding individual researchers who have the potential to make significant contributions to science. Among the current Hughes Investigators are 12 Nobel Prize winners and 122 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

Once selected, HHMI investigators Investigators continue to be based at their home institutions, but become Institute employees and are supported by field staff throughout the country. Dr. Leonard Zon, Director of the Stem Cell Program, has been a Hughes Investigator since 1998.

To read the formal announcement of Dr. Daley's appointment, go to the HHMI Web site.

   
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