The Stem Cell Podcast

The Stem Cell Podcast


Latest Episodes

Ep. 292: “Biomedical Ethics” Featuring Prof. Hank Greely
April 15, 2025

Professor Hank Greely is the Deane F. and Kate Edelman Johnson Professor of Law and Professor, by courtesy, of Genetics at Stanford University. He is also the Director of the Stanford Center for Law a

Ep. 291: “Functional Precision Medicine” Featuring Dr. Scott Younger
April 01, 2025

Dr. Scott Younger is the Director of Disease Gene Engineering within the Genomic Medicine Center at Children's Mercy Hospital. His research focuses on producing patient-derived cellular models to deve

Ep. 290: “ISSCR 2025: Illuminating the Future” Featuring Drs. Valentina Greco, Kathryn Cheah, and Eugenia Piddini
March 18, 2025

Dr. Valentina Greco is the President of the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), and Professor of Genetics and Co-Chair of the Status of Women in Medicine at Yale University. Dr. Kath

Ep. 289: “Heart-Forming Organoids” Featuring Dr. Robert Zweigerdt
March 04, 2025

Dr. Robert Zweigerdt is a Principal Investigator at Hannover Medical School, where his lab focuses on cardiac differentiation and the scalable culture of PSCs. He talks about regulating the lineage-sp

Ep. 288: “Cerebellar Organoids” Featuring Dr. Giorgia Quadrato
February 18, 2025

Dr. Giorgia Quadrato is Assistant Professor of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine at the University of Southern California. Her research focuses on brain developmental and neural organoids. She talks

Ep. 287: “Blood Development” Featuring Drs. Andrew Elefanty and Elizabeth Ng
February 04, 2025

Drs. Andrew Elefanty and Elizabeth Ng are Senior Principal Investigator and Principal Investigator, respectively, at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute. In the Blood Development group, they aim

Ep. 286: “Neural Lineage Identity” Featuring Dr. Marius Wernig
January 21, 2025

Dr. Marius Wernig is a Professor of Pathology and a Co-Director of the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine at Stanford University, where his research interests include direct rep

Ep. 285: “Funding the Future” Featuring Dr. Jonathan Thomas
January 07, 2025

Guest: Dr. Jonathan Thomas "JT" is the President and CEO of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM), an organization that provides funding for stem cell research with the purpose of

Ep. 284: “Organ Chip Engineering” Featuring Dr. Milica Radisic
December 10, 2024

Dr. Milica Radisic is a Professor and Canada Research Chair at the University of Toronto. Her lab uses organ-on-a-chip engineering to mimic physiology of the heart, kidney, and vasculature for the pur

Ep. 283: “Molecular Hematopoiesis” Featuring Dr. Cynthia Dunbar
December 03, 2024

Dr. Cynthia "Cindy" Dunbar is National Institutes of Health (NIH) Distinguished Investigator and Chief of the Translational Stem Cell Biology Branch at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute of