STEM CELLS^® & THE INTERNATIONAL STEM CELL SYMPOSIUM
TO PRESENT
3^RD ANNUAL STEM CELLS^® YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD

Awardee to be named at the International Stem Cell Symposium
Seoul, Korea – June 20, 2008

Durham, North Carolina, April 8, 2008 — AlphaMed Press, publisher of the peer-reviewed journal STEM CELLS^®, is pleased to announce that the 3^rd Annual STEM CELLS^® Young Investigator Award, with co-sponsorship from The International Stem Cell Symposium, will be presented on June 20, 2008 in Seoul, Korea. The $10,000 award will be awarded to a young scientist who, as principal author, published in STEM CELLS^® a paper during the past year that was judged to be most important by an expert editorial board jury.

The awardee will also be invited to present a paper at The 6^th Annual International Stem Cell Symposium in Seoul, Korea, June 20, 2008 with support provided by the conference organizers for accommodations.

For additional information regarding the International Stem Cell Symposium, please contact:

Il-Hoan Oh, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor, The Catholic University of Korea
Director, Catholic Cell Therapy Center
Director, Cell & Gene Therapy Institute, CRIMS
505 Banpodong, Seoul, Korea
E: iho{at}catholic.ac.kr  

For additional information regarding STEM CELLS^®, the world's oldest journal devoted to stem cell research and regenerative medicine, please visit the Journal's website at:
www.StemCells.com.

For information regarding the 2007 STEM CELLS^® Young Investigator Award winner, please click here.