Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, USA
Professor Lorenz P. Studer, MD, is the founding director of the Center for Stem Cell Biology at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and a Member of the Developmental Biology Program. He is widely recognized for his work on the directed differentiation on human pluripotent stem cells into diverse lineages of the central and peripheral nervous system. His group has also been among the first to realize the potential of patient-specific stem cell in modeling neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disorders and developed strategies to measure and manipulate cellular age in pluripotent-derived lineages. Finally, he has pioneered the application of pluripotent stem cells in regenerative medicine including Parkinson's disease (PD); work that has culminated in an ongoing Phase I/IIa trial using “off-the-shelf” dopamine neurons in PD patients.
REALIZING THE POTENTIAL OF PSC-DERIVED THERAPIES: FROM RESEARCH TO CLINICAL TRANSLATION
Friday, July 12, 2024
8:15 AM – 9:45 AM CEST