USC Stem Cell
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USC Stem Cell connects over 100 faculty across USC and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. These researchers collaborate to leverage the transformative power of stem cells to develop new therapies for disease. Learn more at https://stemcell.keck.usc.edu.
Happy Thanksgiving from our department! 🍂
Our department gathered to celebrate the season and we are grateful for the community that makes our work meaningful. Thank you to everyone who joined and helped make the event special. We are grateful for this community today and always.
Our department gathered to celebrate the season and we are grateful for the community that makes our work meaningful. Thank you to everyone who joined and helped make the event special. We are grateful for this community today and always.
November 26, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Happy Thanksgiving from our department! 🍂
Our department gathered to celebrate the season and we are grateful for the community that makes our work meaningful. Thank you to everyone who joined and helped make the event special. We are grateful for this community today and always.
Our department gathered to celebrate the season and we are grateful for the community that makes our work meaningful. Thank you to everyone who joined and helped make the event special. We are grateful for this community today and always.
What can we learn from people who live for 30-40 years with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks motor neurons. The Ichida Lab is doing research in ALS to find out.
November 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
What can we learn from people who live for 30-40 years with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease that attacks motor neurons. The Ichida Lab is doing research in ALS to find out.
What can lizard tail regrowth teach us about regeneration?
Tom Lozito, PhD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, breaks down the science, and how these insights could push his research forward.
Tom Lozito, PhD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, breaks down the science, and how these insights could push his research forward.
November 21, 2025 at 11:11 PM
What can lizard tail regrowth teach us about regeneration?
Tom Lozito, PhD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, breaks down the science, and how these insights could push his research forward.
Tom Lozito, PhD, Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Stem Cell Biology & Regenerative Medicine, breaks down the science, and how these insights could push his research forward.
A new CHLA and @keckschoolusc.bsky.social study reveals that neural crest cells can be reprogrammed into tumor-forming cells—offering fresh insight into the origins of Ewing sarcoma.
Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4nNGGEU
Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4nNGGEU
Discovery May Point to Cell of Origin for Ewing Sarcoma
CHLA researchers have uncovered a likely cell of origin for Ewing sarcoma, offering new insight into how this childhood cancer begins.
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November 18, 2025 at 7:54 PM
A new CHLA and @keckschoolusc.bsky.social study reveals that neural crest cells can be reprogrammed into tumor-forming cells—offering fresh insight into the origins of Ewing sarcoma.
Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4nNGGEU
Learn more here: https://bit.ly/4nNGGEU
Take a journey into the world of stem cell biology with our USC Stem Cell master's program @keckschoolusc.bsky.social! Our info session will take place on Nov. 20, and the application portal is open at https://gradadm.usc.edu.
November 11, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Take a journey into the world of stem cell biology with our USC Stem Cell master's program @keckschoolusc.bsky.social! Our info session will take place on Nov. 20, and the application portal is open at https://gradadm.usc.edu.
Did you know zebrafish share many of the same genes as humans?
Gage Crump, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC Stem Cell, explains how this tiny fish is helping advance human health research.
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Gage Crump, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC Stem Cell, explains how this tiny fish is helping advance human health research.
@keckschoolusc.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Did you know zebrafish share many of the same genes as humans?
Gage Crump, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC Stem Cell, explains how this tiny fish is helping advance human health research.
@keckschoolusc.bsky.social
Gage Crump, PhD, Professor and Vice Chair of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at USC Stem Cell, explains how this tiny fish is helping advance human health research.
@keckschoolusc.bsky.social
Take a journey into the world of stem cell biology with our USC Stem Cell master's program @keckschoolusc.bsky.social! Our info session will take place on Nov. 20, and the application portal is open at https://gradadm.usc.edu.
October 31, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Take a journey into the world of stem cell biology with our USC Stem Cell master's program @keckschoolusc.bsky.social! Our info session will take place on Nov. 20, and the application portal is open at https://gradadm.usc.edu.
USC’s Drs. Denis Evseenko and Toby Maher earned a $3.2M NIH grant to develop a regenerative drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, advancing hope for lung regeneration and recovery. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4o3hOss.
USC physician-scientists Denis Evseenko and Toby Maher win $3.2 million grant from the National Institute on Aging to develop regenerative drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
It might start with a shortness of breath that’s easily dismissed as getting older or needing more exercise. But for the nearly 3 million patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), this subtle...
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October 7, 2025 at 11:25 PM
USC’s Drs. Denis Evseenko and Toby Maher earned a $3.2M NIH grant to develop a regenerative drug for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, advancing hope for lung regeneration and recovery. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4o3hOss.
Exciting breakthrough: USC Stem Cell researchers create genuine embryonic stem cells from birds using egg yolk! Discover more: stemcell.keck.usc.edu/study-genera....
🔬 @stemcell.keck.usc.edu researchers have unlocked a new way to derive and maintain authentic embryonic stem cells from chickens and seven other avian species using egg yolk.
This paves the way for advances in developmental research, food innovation, and more.
#MedSky #StemCell #Research
This paves the way for advances in developmental research, food innovation, and more.
#MedSky #StemCell #Research
USC Stem Cell-led study generates authentic embryonic stem cell from birds
Egg whites may be perfect for a health-conscious breakfast, but egg yolks turned out to be the key ingredient for cultivating bird embryonic stem cells (ESCs) in the lab. Using a growing medium of egg...
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October 1, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Exciting breakthrough: USC Stem Cell researchers create genuine embryonic stem cells from birds using egg yolk! Discover more: stemcell.keck.usc.edu/study-genera....
Congratulations to USC COMPASS student Alara Berkmen for winning the Astronaut Scholarship award for her research on pediatric cancer. viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/09...
USC Viterbi Student Wins Prestigious Astronaut Scholarship - USC Viterbi | School of Engineering
Alara Berkmen, a biomedical engineering student, is recognized for leadership and dedication to cancer research.
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September 26, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Congratulations to USC COMPASS student Alara Berkmen for winning the Astronaut Scholarship award for her research on pediatric cancer. viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2025/09...
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Broad Collaborative Challenge Grants for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows at USC Stem Cell! stemcell.keck.usc.edu/students-and...
USC Stem Cell students and trainees win $15,000 collaborative research grants
When learning to become a great scientist, the most important lesson might be how to collaborate. To encourage this essential skill, for the past decade, USC Stem Cell has awarded one-year challenge g...
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September 25, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Congratulations to the winners of this year's Broad Collaborative Challenge Grants for Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows at USC Stem Cell! stemcell.keck.usc.edu/students-and...
Which signals drive cells to heal large-scale bone injuries? For exploring this question, USC Stem Cell PhD student Shuwan Liu won a 2025 Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/phd-student-...
USC Stem Cell PhD student Shuwan Liu receives award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
Which signals drive cells to heal large-scale bone injuries? For her research into this question, USC Stem Cell PhD student Shuwan Liu has won a 2025 Young Investigator Award from the American Society...
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September 19, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Which signals drive cells to heal large-scale bone injuries? For exploring this question, USC Stem Cell PhD student Shuwan Liu won a 2025 Young Investigator Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/phd-student-...
In a Cell Stem Cell paper, a team led by Zhongwei Li at USC Stem Cell combines kidney filtering and urine-concentrating components to make “assembloids,” the most mature and complex kidney structures ever grown in a lab and a tool for developing new therapies. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/team-makes-m...
September 17, 2025 at 3:49 PM
In a Cell Stem Cell paper, a team led by Zhongwei Li at USC Stem Cell combines kidney filtering and urine-concentrating components to make “assembloids,” the most mature and complex kidney structures ever grown in a lab and a tool for developing new therapies. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/team-makes-m...
A Nature Communications paper from Nils Lindström's lab at USC Stem Cell identifies key molecular switches that generate distinct cell types within the kidney’s filtering units, or nephrons. The lab is getting closer to making therapeutic kidney cells on demand! stemcell.keck.usc.edu/scientists-u...
September 3, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A Nature Communications paper from Nils Lindström's lab at USC Stem Cell identifies key molecular switches that generate distinct cell types within the kidney’s filtering units, or nephrons. The lab is getting closer to making therapeutic kidney cells on demand! stemcell.keck.usc.edu/scientists-u...
Meet USC CIRM Scholar Alumnus Alex Quiyu Guo, Senior Scientist for Discovery Biomarkers at Amgen. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/cirm-scholar...
July 24, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Meet USC CIRM Scholar Alumnus Alex Quiyu Guo, Senior Scientist for Discovery Biomarkers at Amgen. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/cirm-scholar...
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Stem cells are revolutionizing the way we approach healing. 🧪
Learn how Leonardo Morsut, PhD, with @stemcell.keck.usc.edu and
@viterbischool.usc.edu is leading the way in the field of regenerative medicine to ignite discovery in stem cell research.
#MedSky #Science
Learn how Leonardo Morsut, PhD, with @stemcell.keck.usc.edu and
@viterbischool.usc.edu is leading the way in the field of regenerative medicine to ignite discovery in stem cell research.
#MedSky #Science
July 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Stem cells are revolutionizing the way we approach healing. 🧪
Learn how Leonardo Morsut, PhD, with @stemcell.keck.usc.edu and
@viterbischool.usc.edu is leading the way in the field of regenerative medicine to ignite discovery in stem cell research.
#MedSky #Science
Learn how Leonardo Morsut, PhD, with @stemcell.keck.usc.edu and
@viterbischool.usc.edu is leading the way in the field of regenerative medicine to ignite discovery in stem cell research.
#MedSky #Science
Reposted by USC Stem Cell
Kidney cells from #stemcells. Yep, it's happening.
Nils Lindström, PhD, with @lindstromlab.bsky.social at stemcell.keck.usc.edu explains the process of turning stem cells into organoids, a pathway to identifying new treatments for kidney disease.
#Science 🧪
Nils Lindström, PhD, with @lindstromlab.bsky.social at stemcell.keck.usc.edu explains the process of turning stem cells into organoids, a pathway to identifying new treatments for kidney disease.
#Science 🧪
July 21, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Kidney cells from #stemcells. Yep, it's happening.
Nils Lindström, PhD, with @lindstromlab.bsky.social at stemcell.keck.usc.edu explains the process of turning stem cells into organoids, a pathway to identifying new treatments for kidney disease.
#Science 🧪
Nils Lindström, PhD, with @lindstromlab.bsky.social at stemcell.keck.usc.edu explains the process of turning stem cells into organoids, a pathway to identifying new treatments for kidney disease.
#Science 🧪
Rib regeneration declines with age, but a new Aging Cell study shows young blood components can help. The study is a collaboration between corresponding authors Luciana Yamamoto de Almeida & Janice S. Lee from NIH, UCSF & Francesca Mariani from USC Stem Cell. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Skeletal Maturity and Age‐Related Changes in Immune Cells and Circulatory Factors Impair Large‐Scale Bone Regeneration
Although the ribs are the only human bones capable of regenerating large-scale defects, this remarkable ability declines with skeletal maturity and age. Here, we reproduce skeletal maturity and age-r....
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July 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Rib regeneration declines with age, but a new Aging Cell study shows young blood components can help. The study is a collaboration between corresponding authors Luciana Yamamoto de Almeida & Janice S. Lee from NIH, UCSF & Francesca Mariani from USC Stem Cell. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Meet USC’s CIRM Scholar Alumna Joanna Smeeton, Assistant Professor at Columbia University. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/cirm-scholar...
July 19, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Meet USC’s CIRM Scholar Alumna Joanna Smeeton, Assistant Professor at Columbia University. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/cirm-scholar...
Meet USC CIRM Scholar Alumnus Guanyi Huang, Associate Principal Scientist at Merck. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/meet-uscs-ci...
July 9, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Meet USC CIRM Scholar Alumnus Guanyi Huang, Associate Principal Scientist at Merck. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/meet-uscs-ci...
Meet USC CIRM Scholar Alumna Vivian Medina, Senior Manager of Digital and Data Analytics at Takeda, who pursues her career in science with the ultimate goal of helping people. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/meet-cirm-sc...
July 9, 2025 at 8:37 PM
Meet USC CIRM Scholar Alumna Vivian Medina, Senior Manager of Digital and Data Analytics at Takeda, who pursues her career in science with the ultimate goal of helping people. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/meet-cirm-sc...
Meet USC CIRM Scholar Alumnus Maksim Plikus, a professor at the University of California Irvine who studies hair biology. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/meet-cirm-sc...
Meet USC’s CIRM Scholar Alumni: Maksim Plikus, Professor at the University of California, Irvine
Maksim Plikus was still an undergraduate when he first became fascinated by the study of hair biology. His lab supervisor asked him to dissect a rat whisker, and to recombine parts of it to see if it ...
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July 8, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Meet USC CIRM Scholar Alumnus Maksim Plikus, a professor at the University of California Irvine who studies hair biology. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/meet-cirm-sc...
Congratulations to USC Stem Cell clinician-scientist Yang Chai, who has been named Dean of the Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC! today.usc.edu/yang-chai-na...
Yang Chai named dean of USC’s Herman Ostrow dentistry school
The school’s associate dean of research has been serving as interim dean.
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July 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Congratulations to USC Stem Cell clinician-scientist Yang Chai, who has been named Dean of the Ostrow School of Dentistry of USC! today.usc.edu/yang-chai-na...
Meet USC’s CIRM Scholar alumna Suhasni Gopalakrishnan, Director at Allogene Therapeutics in San Francisco. Later this year, a product called ALLO-329, which she helped design and develop, will go into clinical trials for rheumatology disorders. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/cirm-scholar...
Meet USC’s CIRM Scholar Alumni: Suhasni Gopalakrishnan, Director at Allogene Therapeutics
“I feel like I'm a person who goes with the flow,” said Suhasni Gopalakrishnan, Director at Allogene Therapeutics in San Francisco. Going with the flow has led Gopalakrishnan to many fascinating place...
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July 2, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Meet USC’s CIRM Scholar alumna Suhasni Gopalakrishnan, Director at Allogene Therapeutics in San Francisco. Later this year, a product called ALLO-329, which she helped design and develop, will go into clinical trials for rheumatology disorders. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/cirm-scholar...
Following CIRM’s investment in his postdoctoral training at USC, clinician-scientist Noah Merin is not only saving lives, but also advancing the science that is improving bone marrow transplantation outcomes at Cedars-Sinai. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/cirm-scholar...
Meet USC’s CIRM Scholar Alumni: Noah Merin, Assistant Professor at Cedars-Sinai
For physician-scientist Noah Merin, the form of stem cell transplantation known as bone marrow transplantation remains the “coolest thing in medicine” and the focus of his career.“I do bone marrow tra...
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June 30, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Following CIRM’s investment in his postdoctoral training at USC, clinician-scientist Noah Merin is not only saving lives, but also advancing the science that is improving bone marrow transplantation outcomes at Cedars-Sinai. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/cirm-scholar...