Congratulations to the STEMD lab for being awarded the CRG 2026 grant in collaboration with Prof. RuiLin Tian, SUSTech University."
For the Maxwell material, I only have the flyer for my invitation to give a talk at CSH last December. I am attaching it here if it is useful. "Veronica Astro specializes in the use of patient-derived iPSCs and cortical organoids to study early neurodevelopmental mechanisms underlying sex chromosome aneuploidies." Talk title: Modeling cortical circuit dysfunction in sex chromosome aneuploidies using iPSC-derived cortical organoids.

We were delighted to be invited for the BESE Graduate Seminar, where Prof. Antonio Adamo presented our work titled “From Stem Cells to Disease Avatars: What Can Sex Chromosomes Teach Us on Brain Development.” During the seminar, Prof. Adamo shared our latest findings on how extra X chromosomes influence human brain development using stem cell–derived brain organoids. Our results highlight a striking dose-dependent effect on neural patterning, cortical organization, and neuronal excitability, underscoring the role of gene dosage in neurodevelopment.

We thank the founding Dean of the BioMed Division, Peter Goadsby, for the kind introduction.

We are thrilled to celebrate the outstanding achievement of our Master’s student Fotios Kefalas

Our study was selected for the cover of STAR Protocols Journal - Volume 4, Number 2, June 16th, 2023 (Cell Press)

First-of-its-kind Saudi stem cell study provides insight into a genetic condition

Congratulations to Professor Adamo and STEMD Lab members on the receipt of the CRG Grant

Professor Adamo and his team have been awarded the KAUST Smart Health Initiative Seed Grant for their project entitled “An iPSC-based disease-modeling approach to study Klinefelter Syndrome in a unique cohort of Saudi patients”. This project will be executed in collaboration with a scientific team from King Abdulaziz University (KAU) in Jeddah.

Congratulations to Dalal Al-Farhan on the successful defence of her MSc thesis entitled "Dissecting the Role of the Histone Demethylase KDM1B in Maintenance of Pluripotency and Differentiation of Human Embryonic Stem Cells". Dalal is the second masters student to graduate from Professor Adamo's group.

Maryam Al-Owaysi is one of three students at KAUST selected by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) funding agency to receive a grant for her project entitled “Study of the epigenetic contribution of the histone demethylase KDM6A to the onset of Type 2 Diabetes in Klinefelter Syndrome patients”

Elisabetta Fiacco, a KAUST postdoctoral fellow under the supervision of Assistant Professor Antonio Adamo, was awarded the Best Poster Prize at the Spetses Summer School 2018 on Chromatin and Metabolism. The event, which was organized by the Chromatin-Metabolism Interactions for Healthy Living (ChroMe) Network, was held on the Greek island of Spetses from August 25 to 31, 2018.