ISSCR 2026: Virtual Conference Exhibition
As stem cell researchers, we are united by many things: a love of science, insatiable curiosity, and a desire to produce high-quality research that will move the field forward. To recognize the great work being done all over the world, we’re celebrating quality as our common language at ISSCR 2026. No matter your research goals or cell type(s) of interest, a commitment to producing high-quality, reproducible research is essential to achieving success.
To learn how STEMCELL Technologies can support you in your quality journey at ISSCR 2026, browse through sessions, resources, and upcoming products for your stem cell research, below. Don’t forget to bookmark this page and follow us on Instagram (@stemcelltechnologies) and X (@STEMCELLTech) to keep up with the latest updates.
Win a Travel Award for ISSCR 2026
Are you attending the 2026 ISSCR Annual Meeting? Tell us about your research for a chance to win one of two $1000 USD awards to support your trip to Montréal. Contest closes on July 5, 2026.
Featured Tools and Technologies
Explore new technologies that can help you efficiently complete your experiments and take your research further.
New: STEMdiff™ Hepatic Organoid Media
Reliably establish, expand, and differentiate hepatic organoids from human pluripotent stem cell (hPSC)-derived hepatic cells. Compatible with flexible culture methods and exhibiting key characteristics of mature hepatic cells, hPSC-derived hepatic organoids provide a versatile and scalable alternative to traditionally used models for studies in developmental biology, disease modeling, and drug discovery.
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Advancing Organoid Models: Introducing New Capabilities for Intestinal and Hepatic Research
Coming Soon: STEMdiff™ AT2 Alveolosphere Kit
Be among the first to learn about the launch of the STEMdiff™ AT2 Alveolosphere Kit, an upcoming serum-free medium for generating alveolar type II (AT2) cell-containing alveolospheres from lung progenitors. These cultures can grow without mesenchymal support, exhibit self-renewal capacity, and display key AT2 functional characteristics, providing a robust platform for alveolar disease modeling and distal lung research.
New: IntestiCult™ Plus Organoid Growth Medium
Enhance the biological fidelity of your intestinal organoids to better reflect the complexity of the in vivo human intestine. Unlike traditional workflows that require separate expansion and differentiation phases, IntestiCult™ Plus is a complete, serum- and conditioned medium-free formulation designed to streamline intestinal organoid culture while balancing support for both stem cells and differentiated cells.
Related Webinar:
The Hidden Variable in Your Intestinal Organoids
New: Isogenic Human iPSC Lines
Investigate gene function using control-matched human iPSC lines that enable direct comparisons between disease-associated variants and matched isogenic controls. Derived from well-characterized, healthy human iPSC lines such as SCTi003-A, these genome-edited iPSC lines feature targeted, disease-associated mutations introduced using CRISPR-Cas9 technology. Manufactured under rigorous quality control standards, these cells are compatible with a range of differentiation protocols and applications.
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Start With Highly Characterized Human iPSC Solutions
New: CloneR™3
Improve the cloning efficiency, survival, and expansion of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) in animal origin-free (AOF) workflows and 3D suspension culture workflows. Chemically defined, with no animal-derived raw materials used in manufacturing, CloneR™3 is optimized for use with TeSR™-AOF in 2D monolayer culture and with TeSR™-AOF 3D in 3D suspension culture, supporting workflows that require enhanced traceability and viral safety.
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Expansion of hPSCs in 3D Suspension Culture
mTeSR™ Plus
Enjoy weekend-free schedules and enhanced growth characteristics while maintaining cell quality with this stabilized feeder-free maintenance medium for hPSCs. Manufactured under relevant cGMPs, mTeSR™ Plus ensures the highest quality and consistency for fundamental research as well as for cell therapy and investigational new drug research applications.
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TeSR™ Product Finder
Coming Soon: GMP StemSpan™ HSPC Medium
Support diverse hematopoietic and immune cell therapy workflows with a GMP, serum-free medium. Expand CD34+ hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), enable gene editing, and drive differentiation into immune cells such as T and NK cells with demonstrated functional potency and high yields.
CellPore™ Transfection System
Achieve efficient cytosolic delivery of target cargoes (e.g. nucleic acids, proteins, and small molecules) into human unactivated immune and hematopoietic stem cells, without altering cell quality.
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Gene Editing Human CD34+ Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cells with the CellPore™ Transfection System
STEMdiff™ Hematopoietic Kit
Generate functional hematopoietic progenitor cells from human embryonic stem cells (hESCs) and human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs). Using a simple and reproducible protocol in serum- and feeder-free conditions, you can produce hematopoietic progenitor cells expressing CD34, CD45, and CD43.
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Scalable Generation of Blood Cells and Microglia from hPSCs
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STEMdiff™-TF Forebrain Induced Neuron Differentiation Kit
Rapidly and efficiently generate forebrain neurons from human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) in just five days. This forward programming kit employs transcription factor (TF)-mediated differentiation via lipid nanoparticle (LNP)-based delivery of non-integrating Neurogenin-2 (NGN2) mRNA, leading to overexpression of the TF to produce highly pure excitatory glutamatergic neurons with forebrain identity.
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How to Tri-Culture Astrocytes, Microglia, and NGN2 mRNA-LNP-Induced Forebrain Neurons Derived from hPSCs
Maestro Pro™
Achieve sophisticated electrophysiological assessment, delivered directly from a multi-well plate. Explore the complete Maestro Pro™ and Edge™ MEA systems, including CytoView MEA™ or BioCircuit MEA™ plates and neural software modules.
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Maestro Pro™ Multi-Electrode Array System: Functional Analysis—at Your Fingertips
New: Human iPSC-Derived Microglia
Accelerate your neural research with confidence using high-quality, ready-to-use cryopreserved Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell (iPSC)-Derived Microglia. Ready for downstream applications immediately after thawing, these microglia are functional, in a non-activated state, and highly pure. Human iPSC-Derived Microglia are manufactured from the highly characterized human iPSC control line, SCTi003-A (Catalog #200-0511) in a completely serum-free system.
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How to Co-Culture Human Pluripotent Stem Cell (hPSC)-Derived Forebrain Neurons and Microglia
Coming Soon: Linea 1 Human iPSC Line, Female, GMP & RUO
Save time and money in your hPSC-derived therapy development by using matched GMP and RUO cell lines that allow you to transition from RUO to GMP while maintaining equivalence. LineaBio’s GMP lines are produced using defined, quality-controlled processes for donor selection, reprogramming, expansion, and banking. STEMCELL’s matched RUO lines are qualified to ISSCR research standards to ensure equivalence. Together, they provide a consistent, traceable foundation for hPSC-derived cell therapy development.
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Matched GMP and RUO Human iPSC Lines
PBS-MINI MagDrive Bioreactor
Reliably and rapidly scale up your 3D cell cultures and suspensions with the PBS-MINI Bioreactor. The gentle yet efficient mixing provided by the Vertical-Wheel™ impeller enables the expansion of shear-sensitive cells without anti-foaming agents or shear protectants. This compact and convenient bioreactor can be used inside incubators and is ideal for hPSCs cultured in the TeSR™ 3D family of media.
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Rapid 3D Cell Culture Scale-Up
TeSR™-AOF
Reduce risk and obtain more high-quality cells in your human pluripotent stem cell-derived (hPSC) cell therapy development, manufactured under relevant cGMPs. With no materials of animal or human origin to the secondary level of manufacturing, enjoy more straightforward traceability and enhanced viral safety compared to media that are only animal origin-free to the primary level of manufacturing.
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Large-Scale Expansion of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells (hPSCs) in 2D Monolayer Culture using TeSR™-AOF
Align Your Research with the ISSCR Standards
Wallchart: Reporting Practices for Publishing Results with hPSCs
Request a free copy of this wallchart, previously published in Stem Cell Reports, to ensure that your research aligns with the ISSCR Standards.
On-Demand Course: Applying the ISSCR Standards for Research
Learn to confidently apply the ISSCR Standards for Human Stem Cell Use in Research to your projects with this free virtual course.
ISSCR 2026 with the Stem Cell Podcast
Podcast co-hosts Daylon and Arun chat with Drs. Fiona Doetsch and Nozomu Yachie, Co-Chairs of the ISSCR 2026 Annual Meeting Program Committee, to discuss the meeting’s global focus, program highlights, and opportunities for early-career researchers. Subscribe to the Stem Cell Podcast YouTube channel to be the first to know when a new episode is out.
Innovation Showcase Presentations
Watch the Innovation Showcase presentations from ISSCR 2025 online now.
Using Automation to Assess the Impact of eTeSR™ on Genetic Stability of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells
Kimberly Snyder presents on leveraging automation to evaluate the impact of eTeSR™ medium on the genetic stability of human pluripotent stem cells during long-term single-cell passaging.
Advancing Neurological and Retinal Research with Genetically Diverse Human iPSC-Derived Models
Dr. Andrew Gaffney showcases characterization data for genetically diverse human iPSC lines for the advancement of neurological and retinal disease modeling and drug discovery.
Rapidly Generating Functional Forebrain Neurons from hiPSCs Using an NGN2 mRNA-LNP Platform
Dr. Robert Judson introduces the STEMdiff™-TF Forebrain Induced Neuron Differentiation Kit, an integration-free, mRNA-lipid nanoparticle (LNP) system designed for the rapid, efficient, and reproducible generation of highly pure neurons.
Advancing Organoid Models: Introducing New Capabilities for Intestinal and Hepatic Research
Riya Sharma demonstrates how the latest media and culture tools address common limitations in epithelial organoid models. By enhancing consistency, imaging, and efficiency, these advancements help to maximize the impact of intestinal and hepatic organoid-based research.
Differentiation of Human Pluripotent Stem Cells to Immune Cells for Cell Therapy Development
Diana Golubeva shares a scalable, suspension culture protocol for differentiating human pluripotent stem cells into hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells, and further into NK, T, and B cells for allogeneic cell therapy development.
Generate 40+ Cell Types & Organoids
Find the right STEMdiff™ kit for your hPSC differentiation with our interactive product explorer. Simply select an organ system to browse the 40+ cell types and organoids you can generate with our standardized STEMdiff™ kits.
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