Stem Cell User Group Meetings have been held at various centres throughout the UK over the last few years. More recently, staff from the Irish Stem Cell laboratories have joined this group and the 11th SCUG meeting was held in St Vincent’s University Hospital on 18th June 2010. There were 35 delegates from 10 centres in the UK and from 4 centres in Ireland. In addition, representatives from Asistec, Planer plc, Smart Cells, Quest Biomedical, Shield Medicare, Agma, Miltenyi Biotec, Fisher Bioservices and Cryoservice attended, some of them with trade stands.