Training Programs

The NIH supports short-term training courses in human embryonic stem cell culture techniques. These training courses, offered at various locations, will include hands-on experience to improve the knowledge and skills of biomedical researchers to maintain, characterize, and utilize human embryonic stem cells in basic research studies. The courses are available to investigators in research areas of interest and to all institutes and centers of the NIH.

NIH-Supported Stem Cell Training Courses 2007–2008

• Essentials of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture Techniques
  University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute
  Minneapolis, MN
  Dates: September 30–October 2, 2008; January 12–14, 2009; April 28–30, 2009 (Quarterly)
  Email: firpo001@umn.edu
• Frontiers in Human Embryonic Stem Cells
  Pittsburgh Development Center
  Dates: TBD (Annually)
  Location: Woods Hole, MA
  Email: frhesc@pdc.magee.edu
• Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture Training Course
  Children's Hospital of Orange County (CHOC) Research Institute
  Orange, CA
  Dates: March 3–12, 2009
  Email: pschwartz@choc.org
• Human Embryonic Stem Cell Toolbox Workshop
  Virginia Commonwealth University
  Richmond, VA
  Dates: February 15–19, 2009
  Email: rrrao@vcu.edu
• Human Embryonic Stem Cell Workshop
  University of Georgia, Regenerative Bioscience Center
  Athens, GA
  Dates: TBD
  Email: smilton@uga.edu
• Human Embryonic Stem Cells: Comprehensive Training Program
  The Scripps Research Institute
  Center for Regenerative Medicine
  La Jolla, CA
  Dates: TBD
  Email: jloring@scripps.edu
• Human Multipotent Adult Stem Cell (MAPC) Culture
  University of Minnesota Stem Cell Institute
  Minneapolis, MN
  Dates: TBD
  Email: ander607@umn.edu
• Methods in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research
  The Jackson Laboratory
  Bar Harbor, ME
  Dates: October 14–18, 2008 (Annually)
  Email: barbara.donovan@jax.org
• Short-term Course in Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture
  Technion/Johns Hopkins University
  Baltimore, MD
  Dates: January 12–16, 2009 (Semiannually)
  Email: itskovitz@rambam.health.gov.il

Additional Stem Cell Training Courses

• A Hands-On Human Embryonic Stem Cell Training Course
  Rutgers University—Stem Cell Research Center
  Piscataway, NJ
  Dates: September 2008
• Stem Cells & Regenerative Medicine
  European Consortium for Stem Cell Research
  Hydra, Greece
  Dates: TBD (Annually)
  Email: eurosystem-office@cscr.cam.ac.uk
• Introduction to Human Embryonic Stem Cell Culture Methods
  WiCell Research Institute
  University of Wisconsin
  Madison, Wisconsin
  Dates: November 3–5, 2008; December 8–10, 2008 
• ESTOOLS Winter School on hES and iPS cells
  Saariselka, Finland
  Dates: January 26–30, 2009
  Applications deadline: October 31, 2008