Training Program for Medical Students
4/8/2010

The Stem Cell Unit of Anatomy Department, College of Medicine, King Saud University organized a Summer Course Training Program for Medical Students.
The course was held on the 24th of July 2010 – 4th of August 2010, the two weeks course covered a “Hands-On Sessions” and Lectures.
The lectures includes the Important Aspects in Stem Cell Technology and Regenerative Medicine in addition to Culture Techniques, PCR Techniques, FACS Analysis with some lectures on IPS Cells and Stem Cell in Tissue Engineering.

The training program schedule will be as follows:

Stem Cell Unit at KSU and Australian National University formalize twinning research agreements
28/5/2010

Dr. Abdullah Aldhamash, the head and founder of Stem Cell Unit at King Saud University, has announced on May 28 2010, a new research partnership between Stem Cell Unit, represented by Dr. May Salem Alnbaheen, the laboratory manager of Stem Cell Unit-KSU and the Australian National University, where Professor Klaus Matthaei of The John Curtin School of Medical Research is a distinguished stem-cell expert. Doctor Matthaei is a professor and the Chair of King Saud University’s Stem Cell Unit in the College of Medicine and a driving force behind KSU’s ambitious Twinning Program.

 The Australian National University ranks 59th among the world’s finest universities according to China’s Institute of Higher Education of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which annually releases the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).

The twining program aims to transfer the stem cell technology and genetic corrections into the national research units, producing specific tissues and cells to be used for treatment of genetic disorders such as neurodegenerative diseases, and infertility cases, and train national trainees on the latest technology in the field of stem cells and genetic correction.

http://enews.ksu.edu.sa/2010/06/08/ksu-and-top-australian-universities-reach-twinning-research-agreements/

9/3/2010

Stem Cell Unit in Anatomy Department / King Saud University has organized a mini seminar by Dr. Bassem M. Abdullah, associate Professor and Laboratory Manager / Odense University Hospital, Molecular Endocrinology Laboratory (KMEB) University of Southern Denmark, presenting two lectures “Current understanding of the balance between osteoblast and adipocyte differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells” and “ Novel strategy for directing the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into chondrocyte fro cartilage tissue repair” in Sunday 21 Feb 2010 in College of Medicine, King Saud University.

Won the FIRST PRIZE
8/1/2010
Stem Cell Unit -College of Medicine King Saud University Won the FIRST PRIZE for the research work entitled (Some Factors Affecting Embryological Techniques in Mice) By Mona Ahmed Elsafadi a researcher in the unit, in the contest organized by the IVF laboratory of the King Fahad Medical City in association with the Riyadh Embryology Club, and the Jeddah Embryology Club during the conference "Recent Advances in Laboratory Assisted Reproductive Technology" held in King Fahad Medical City in 8th Jan 2010