Building on the success of the previous five years, Lund Stem Cell Center is hosting UniStem Day March 6th 2020, and with more than 600 applicants interest is greater than ever.
An international event held simultaneously at universities and research institutes in 13 countries world-wide, UniStem Day is the largest scientific research event of its kind, promoting stem cell research to students.
- With more than 200 students attending this year, it’s fantastic that we have had such a continued great response to this day dedicated to the learning, discovery and discussion about stem cell research, says Göran Karlsson, researcher and co-ordinator of this year’s event.
Activities that students from Lund, Malmö, Kristianstad, Simrishamn and Ystad will participate in interactive lectures, such as ‘how do you become a researcher’’, as well sixteen different hands-on sessions where students find out ‘can you grow a brain in a dish?’, ‘how to use viruses to fight genetic disease’ and ‘transplant cells into the brain and find them’.
To reach more students than ever before, UniStem Day continues to collaborate with the Research School in Stem Cell Biology at Lund Stem Cell Center in the “Taking Science to Schools – Borrow a Scientist” initiative.
- “Taking Science to school” involves 19 doctoral students, postdoctoral fellows and senior scientists from Lund Stem Cell Center who will be visiting eleven high schools across Skåne to talk about stem cell research and provide insight into a researcher’s everyday life.
Our scientists have prepared engaging and interactive activities to discover what the students know about stem cells, and to promote their curiosity and interest in this exciting research area, explains Christine Karlsson, Executive director of the Research School in Stem Cell Biology.
-Through this year’s UniStem Day and "Taking science to schools", stem cell researchers from Lund University will have reached over 640 high school students. We hope we can provide them with an insight into stem cell research, and perhaps inspire them along the path to becoming the next generation of stem cell scientists, concludes Göran Karlsson.
