Mission

We work towards understanding the mechanisms of cellular reprogramming that governs the transformation of a somatic cell into a pluripotent one. We identify regulatory genes and gene products that govern the state of pluripotency. We use this knowledge to generate human isogenic pluripotent stem cells and to improve the efficiency of somatic cell nuclear transfer.


Current & Former Collaborators

Gloria Perez, DVM, Ph.D.
Associate Professor - Department of Physiology
Michigan State University


Alejandro Sánchez Alvarado, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Neurobiology and Anatomy
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
University of Utah School of Medicine
University of Utah
Lim Bing, M.D., Ph.D.
Senior Group Leader,
Associate Director of Biology
Genome Institute of Singapore
Rafael Fissore, DVM, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Developmental Biology
University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Kathleen A. Grant, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Behavioral Neurosciences
Oregon Health Science University
Senior Scientist – Division of Neuroscience
Oregon National Primate Research Center


Sevlever Gustavo
Director of Teaching and Research FLENI
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Vanesa Heyd, M.D., Ph.D.
Developmental Cell Biology Laboratory
FLENI
Buenos Aires, Argentina


Ann Kiessling, Ph.D.
Director - Bedford Stem Cell Research Foundation
Associate Professor of Surgery - Harvard Medical School
Bedford, MA

Neil Krieger, Ph.D.
West Rock Associates
Jamaica Plain, MA 02130


Ki-Young Lee, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Faculty of Marine Life Science
College of Ocean Science & Technology
Kunsan National University
Jeollabuk-do, South Korea
Ronald D.G. McKay, Ph.D.
Laboratory of Molecular Biology
National Institute of Health - USA
Carlos T. Moraes, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Neurology and Cell Biology & Anatomy
University of Miami, School of Medicine
Hasan H Otu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Genetics and Bioengineering
Yeditepe University
Kayisdagi, Istanbul, Turkey
David Russell, M.D., Ph.D.
Division of Hematology
University of Washington, School of Medicine

Hans R. Scholer, Ph.D.
Director - Department of Cell & Developmental Biology
Max Planck Institute for Molecular Biomedicine
Munster, Germany
George W. Smith, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Michigan State University
Corrado Spadafora, Ph.D.
Director – Istituto Superiore di Sanità
Rome, Italy

Lorenz Studer, M.D.
Stem Cell and Tumor Developmental Biology
Sloan-Kettering Institute


Kent E. Vrana, Ph.D.
Elliot S. Vesell Professor & Chair - Department of Pharmacology
College of Medicine
Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Pennsylvania State University

Teruhiko Wakayama, Ph.D.
Laboratory for Genomic Reprogramming
Center for Developmental Biology
Riken University
Kobe, Japan


Peter Wettstein, Ph.D.
Professor of Immunology
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine