Developmental Biology Program
The Lorenz Studer Lab
Research

Our laboratory aims at exploiting recent advances in stem cell biology to develop radically new therapies for degenerative disease and cancer. The main focus in the lab is on the biology and application of human embryonic stem (ES) and human induced pluripotent (iPS) cells. Pluripotent stem cells can provide a truly unlimited source for deriving therapeutically relevant cell types for applications in human disease modeling or regenerative medicine.
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Cornacchia D, Zhang C, Zimmer B, Chung SY, Fan Y, Soliman MA, Tchieu J, Chambers SM, Shah H, Paull D, Konrad C, Vincendeau M, Noggle SA, Manfredi G, Finley LWS, Cross JR, Betel D, Studer L. Lipid Deprivation Induces a Stable, Naive-to-Primed Intermediate State of Pluripotency in Human PSCs. Cell Stem Cell. 2019 Jul 3;25(1):120-136.e10. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2019.05.001. Epub 2019 May 30
Cederquist GY, Asciolla JJ, Tchieu J, Walsh RM, Cornacchia D, Resh MD, Studer L. Specification of positional identity in forebrain organoids. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Apr;37(4):436-444. doi: 10.1038/s41587-019-0085-3. Epub 2019 Apr 1.
Tchieu J, Calder EL, Guttikonda SR, Gutzwiller EM, Aromolaran KA, Steinbeck JA, Goldstein PA, Studer L. NFIA is a gliogenic switch enabling rapid derivation of functional human astrocytes from pluripotent stem cells. Nat Biotechnol. 2019 Mar;37(3):267-275. doi: 10.1038/s41587-019-0035-0. Epub 2019 Feb 25.
Tchieu J, Zimmer B, Fattahi F, Amin S, Zeltner N, Chen S, Studer L. A Modular Platform for Differentiation of Human PSCs into All Major Ectodermal Lineages. Cell Stem Cell. 2017 Sep 7;21(3):399-410.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2017.08.015.
Zhou T, Tan L, Cederquist GY, Fan Y, Hartley BJ, Mukherjee S, Tomishima M, Brennand KJ, Zhang Q, Schwartz RE, Evans T, Studer L, Chen S. High-Content Screening in hPSC-Neural Progenitors Identifies Drug Candidates that Inhibit Zika Virus Infection in Fetal-like Organoids and Adult Brain.Cell Stem Cell. 2017 Aug 3;21(2):274-283.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2017.06.017. Epub 2017 Jul 20.
People

Lorenz Studer, MD
Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology
- The Studer laboratory investigates human stem cells as tools to understand normal and pathological development in the nervous system and to develop cell-based strategies for regenerative medicine.
- MD, Universitat Bern
- studerl@mskcc.org
- Email Address
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Medical Director at Havas Health & You, New York, NY

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Postdoctoral fellow – currently, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group

Graduate Student - currently, Sandler Faculty Fellow, UCSF
Postdoctoral Fellow – current, Group leader, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently, Research Associate in The Luis Parada Lab

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently, Head of Stem Cell Protocol Development Core, Evotec, Hamburg, Germany
Medical Student, Weill Cornell

Graduate Student – currently, Director of the Dean's Entrepreneurship Lab at Weill Cornell

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Postdoctoral Fellow - currently, Staff Scientist at NYSCF

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently Senior Scientist at Neurona Therapeutics Inc

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Postdoctoral fellow - currently: Assistant Prof., Soonchunhayng University

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently, Senior Scientist at Amgen

Principal Scientist at AbbVie, Boston, MA
PhD student – currently, Research Associate in the Jean-Laurent Casanova Lab, Rockefeller University

Manager, Field Applications - Cell Biology Thermo Fisher Scientific New York, NY

Graduate Student - currently: Postdoctoral fellow with Konrad Hochedlinger

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Associate Prof., Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

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Graduate Student - currently: Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Postdoctoral fellow - Currently: Principal Investigator, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics,

Postdoctoral fellow - currently: Assistant Prof., Helmholtz Institute

Postdoctoral Fellow - Currently: Associate Scientist, Texas BioMed Research Institute, SW National Primate Research Center

Currently, Sr. Director, CNS Bioprocess at BlueRock Therapeutics

Chair, Department of Neurosurgery; Theresa Feng Chair in Neurosurgical Oncology

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Principal Investigator, iSTEM, INSERM, France
Currently, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine
PhD student – currently, Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lab Affilations
Achievements
- Jacob & Louise Gabbay Award in Biotechnology & Medicine (2018)
- Ogawa-Yamanaka Stem Cell Prize, Gladstone Institutes (2017)
- MacArthur Fellow (2015)
- Member, American Society of Clinical Investigation (2014)
- Annemarie Opprecht Parkinson Award, Annemarie Opprecht Foundation (2012)
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- Louise and Allston Boyer Young Investigator in Basic Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2005)
Lab News & Events
Upcoming event
Exploration of Human Genetic and Phenotypic Diversity Through Cell Villages
This seminar will be conducted by Zoom Webinar.
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Disclosures
Doctors and faculty members often work with pharmaceutical, device, biotechnology, and life sciences companies, and other organizations outside of MSK, to find safe and effective cancer treatments, to improve patient care, and to educate the health care community.
MSK requires doctors and faculty members to report (“disclose”) the relationships and financial interests they have with external entities. As a commitment to transparency with our community, we make that information available to the public.
Lorenz Studer discloses the following relationships and financial interests:
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Bayer
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BlueRock Therapeutics
Intellectual Property Rights; Ownership / Equity Interests; Provision of Services
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Neurona Therapeutics
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Vita Therapeutics, Inc.
Ownership / Equity Interests; Provision of Services (uncompensated)
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