StemCore Queensland

In response to increased demand for stem cell products driven by growth in stem cell research activity in the Brisbane area, an ASCC laboratory at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology (AIBN, University of Queensland) was established by Dr Teija Peura in late 2007 and officially opened in April 2008. Since opening, this laboratory has provided products and services to many researchers based at the University of Queensland and other institutes.

Currently, StemCore QLD supports six research groups with over 13 individual users; group leaders, post-docs, PhD and Masters students. Amongst others, the core is currently supporting the ASCC Collaborative Streams 1 and 2, and another non-ASCC funded project developing a high-throughput screening platform for examining hESC differentiation into renal lineage.

StemCore QLD is managed under the direction of Ms Victoria Turner and is currently operated by five full time staff - see staff profiles. Download a University of Queensland St Lucia campus map.

StemCore iPS Cell Facility

Operated under the direction of A/Professor Ernst Wolvetang from the University of Queensland, the StemCore iPS Cell Facility offers scientists a service for the custom development of iPS cell lines from their preferred cellular material. Providing an alternative to the internal development of iPS cell lines, StemCore’s iPS cell service comprise of two stages: (Stage 1) Generation of new iPS cell lines and (Stage 2) iPS cell line characterisation. Uniquely, as customers can opt to be placed within StemCore iPS Cell Facility for the duration of stage one, customers may also receive expert training in iPS cell generation.

StemCore Victoria

The first core stem cell laboratories were established within the ASCC in 2004 as a Major National Research Facility initiative, and officially opened in 2005. The successor of this laboratory, StemCore VIC, is located at Monash University Campus in Clayton, in the STRIP building (building 75). Since beginning operations, the core laboratory has serviced several research groups and individual scientists, from Monash University, CSIRO, The Australian Regenerative Medicine Institute, Monash Institute Medical of Medical Research and the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences.

StemCore VIC is jointly managed by Professors Ed Stanley and Andrew Elefanty and is operated by eight staff with expertise in stem cell culture and other related lab techniques - see staff profiles. Besides products and services described in Products and Services, expansion, cryobanking and Australian and New Zealand distribution of the MEL series of hESC lines are exclusively undertaken at the Victorian laboratory.

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