The current issue of the Cell Journal(Yakhteh), an open access, peer review and quarterly English publication of Royan Institute, is available at Cell Journal, Vol 22, Number 1, Spring  2020. It publishes original.review and systematic review, short communication, case report and editorial articles on cellular and molecular scientific areas, beside other related fields.

The current issue of the Cell Journal(Yakhteh), an open access, peer review and quarterly English publication of Royan Institute, is available at Cell Journal, Vol 22, Number 4, Winter 2021. It publishes original.review and systematic review, short communication, case report and editorial articles on cellular and molecular scientific areas, beside other related fields.

The current issue of International Journal of Fertility and Sterility, an open access and quarterly English publication of Royan Institute, is available at Int J Fertil Steril, Volume 14, Number 1, Apr-Jun 2020. It publishes original, review and systematic review, short communication, case report and editorial articles across a broad range of disciplines within fertility and sterility.

Professor Hossein Baharvand, Director of Royan Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Technology, has been selected as the recipient of prestigious Mustafa Award 2019. This Award is an honor given to distinguished Scientists from Islamic world. Professor Baharvand won the prize for “Parkinson's treatment and Eye AMD with Stem Cell”. He has been acknowledged for his substantial contribution in development of Stem Cell Science in Iran and all over the world. He has established the first embryonic stem cell lines from mouse and human in Iran and developed protocols for their differentiation into various cell types with the efforts of his team. Now these cells are available for research as well as clinical application.  In the prize ceremony which was held at Vahdat Hall on November 11, Professor Ugur Sahin from Turkey and Professor Ali Khademhosseini from Iran shared the Mustafa Prize in Life & Medical Science and Technology.Prof. Umran S. Inan from Turkey, Professor Hossein Baharvand and Dr. Mohammad Abdolahad from Iran shared the Mustafa Prize in scientists from Islamic countries category of the event. The Mustafa Prize is awarded in five categories of information and communication science and technology, life and medical science and technology, Nano-science and nanotechnology and all areas of science and technology.

Royan International Twin Congress was held on August 28^th to 30th, 2019. The 20^th Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine and 15^th Congress on Stem Cell Biology and Technology were held at Razi Conference Center with more than 1700 participants.

The 20^th Royan International Research Award (RIRA) wrapped up its work on August 28^th, 2019 by awarding the top three international researchers beside a national scientist selected from among 67 research articles of 17 countries.

Winners of Royan 20^th International Research Award gave lectures at Royan Twin Congress on Reproductive Biomedicine and Stem Cell Biology and Technology along with invited speakers to almost 1740 audiences.

10^th Royan International Summer School

The 10^th Royan International Summer School on Molecular Biomedicine from Diagnostics to Therapeutics was held on July 13^th to 17^th, 2019 at Royan Institute.
More than 300 undergraduate, graduate and postgraduate students got the chance to taste different aspects of the rapidly growing, multidisciplinary field of Molecular Biomedicine from Diagnostics to Therapeutics in order to gain invaluable insights towards finding their area of interest for their future research in the field.

The 9th Royan International Summer School on on brain and cognitive sciences was held on July 14th to 18th, 2018 at Royan Institute. The main purposes of this summer school included:
Introduction to the Brain and Cognitive Sciences
Methods to Study the Brain in Action
fMRI, MEG, EEG, TMS, Optogenetics
The Brain in Health and Disease

The current volume of the quarterly International Cell Journal(Yakhteh), an open access, peer-reviewed scientific journal, is available at Cell Journal, Vol 21, Number 1, Spring 2019. It publishes research papers on molecular biology, cell biology, stem cells, developmental biology, genetics and genomics, proteomics, cancer research, immunology, neuroscience, structural biology, microbiology, virology, physiology and biophysics.