The Stem Cell Podcast

Feb 04 2025 10 ep. 88 mins 3.1k
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Join Drs. Daylon James and Arun Sharma as they discuss the latest stem cell research, and interview some of the brightest minds in the field. Brought to you by STEMCELL Technologies.

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Ep. 287: “Blood Development” Featuring Drs. Andrew Elefanty and Elizabeth Ng

Feb 04 2025 89 mins  
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 to develop innovative cellular therapies for blood and cartilage-related diseases. They talk about their recent study deriving and transplanting HSCs, their work on reporter lines, an

Ep. 286: “Neural Lineage Identity” Featuring Dr. Marius Wernig

Jan 21 2025 84 mins  
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 reprogramming and neurological disease modeling. He talks about his early work reprogramming neuronal cells from fibroblasts, adopting iPSCs, and growing his lab. He also discusses his re

Ep. 285: “Funding the Future” Featuring Dr. Jonathan Thomas

Jan 07 2025 91 mins  
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 accelerating treatments for patients in need. He talks about working to ensure diversity in clinical trials and developing treatments that are affordable and accessible to patients. He

Ep. 284: “Organ Chip Engineering” Featuring Dr. Milica Radisic

Dec 10 2024 82 mins  
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 purpose of modeling human disease and discovering more effective drugs. In this episode, she talks about the challenges of studying the heart and strategies to mature cardiomyocytes. She

Ep. 283: “Molecular Hematopoiesis” Featuring Dr. Cynthia Dunbar

Dec 03 2024 90 mins  
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 the NIH. She talks about using macaques to study hematopoiesis and aging, and the challenges and considerations for using these models. She also discusses her collaborative study tran

Ep. 282: “Whole-Body Regeneration” Featuring Dr. Mansi Srivastava

Nov 26 2024 94 mins  
Dr. Mansi Srivastava is Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University and Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology. Her lab uses distantly related species to study evolution and regeneration. She talks about establishing Hofstenia miamia, or the three-banded panther worm, as a model system. She also discusses her lab's wo

Ep. 281: “Fertility Treatments” Featuring Drs. Dina Radenkovic and Bruna Paulsen

Nov 12 2024 89 mins  
Drs. Dina Radenkovic and Bruna Paulsen are Co-Founder & CEO and VP of Manufacturing and Therapeutic development at Gameto, a biotech company developing treatment solutions to improve women's reproductive health. Their lead platform, Fertilo, uses ovarian support cells to mature oocytes outside of the body with the goal of making IVF and egg freezing shorter, safer, and more effecti

Ep. 280: “Liver Regeneration” Featuring Dr. Meritxell Huch

Oct 29 2024 84 mins  
Dr. Meritxell Huch is a Scientific Director at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics and an Honorary Professor at the Technical University of Dresden. Her research focuses on liver and pancreas organoid models. She discusses a protocol for liver mesenchyme and ductal cell organoid co-culture and generating bipotent stem cells from the liver. She also tells

Ep. 279: “Direct Reprogramming” Featuring Dr. Samantha Morris

Oct 22 2024 87 mins  
Dr. Samantha Morris is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Associate Professor of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School. She talks about dissecting and manipulating the genetic pathways that regulate cell identity. She discusses tools to measure cell fate transitions and incorporating in silico and in vitro experiments.

Ep. 278: “Stembryo Engineering” Featuring Dr. Alfonso Martinez Arias

Oct 15 2024 91 mins  
Dr. Alfonso Martinez Arias is the CREA Research Professor in the Department of Systems Bioengineering of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He talks about his path to developmental biology research and developing gastruloids to model human development. He also discusses standards for embryo models and his recent research on hematopoiesis.