Developmental Biology Program

The Lorenz Studer Lab

Research

Lorenz Studer, MD

Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology

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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Research Projects

Featured News

Q&A

Taking Aim at Parkinson’s Disease: A Conversation with Developmental Biologist Lorenz Studer

Friday, October 9, 2020

Announcement

MSK’s Lorenz Studer Named a 2015 MacArthur Fellow

Tuesday, September 29, 2015

In the Lab

Stem Cell Research Identifies Potential Drugs for Treating Zika Infection

Thursday, July 20, 2017

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Publications

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.

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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
212-639-6126: Office Phone

Members

Arianna Baggiolini, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Elizabeth L Calder, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Gabriele Ciceri, Ph.D. — Gabriele Ciceri, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow - NYSTEM Training Award at the CSCB

Daniela Cornacchia, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Elisa Giacomelli, PhD

Postdoctoral Fellow

Oliver Härschnitz, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Johannes Jungverdorben, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Nathalie Saurat, PhD
Postdoctoral Fellow

Marietta Saldias Montivero

Lab Technician

Nan Xu

Graduate Student

Lab Alumni

Scott J. Callahan, PhD — Scott J. Callahan
Medical Director at Havas Health & You, New York, NY

Nadja Zeltner, PhD — Nadja Zeltner
Postdoctoral fellow – currently, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

Yuchen Qi
Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group

Faranak Fattahi, MS — Faranak Fattahi
Graduate Student - currently, Sandler Faculty Fellow, UCSF

Michelle Vincendeau

Postdoctoral Fellow – current, Group leader, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany

Elsa Vera, PhD — Elsa Vera
Postdoctoral Fellow - currently, Research Associate in The Luis Parada Lab

Bastian Zimmer, PhD — Bastian Zimmer
Postdoctoral Fellow - currently, Head of Stem Cell Protocol Development Core, Evotec, Hamburg, Germany

Mohamed Soliman

Medical Student, Weill Cornell

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

Yosif Martin Ganat
Postdoctoral Fellow - currently, Staff Scientist at NYSCF

Sonja Kriks
Postdoctoral Fellow - currently Senior Scientist at Neurona Therapeutics Inc

Jae-won Shim
Postdoctoral fellow - currently: Assistant Prof., Soonchunhayng University

Stuart Chambers
Postdoctoral Fellow - currently, Senior Scientist at Amgen

Justine D. Miller
Principal Scientist at AbbVie, Boston, MA

Fabien Lafaille

PhD student – currently, Research Associate in the Jean-Laurent Casanova Lab, Rockefeller University

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

Inna Lipchina
Graduate Student - currently: Postdoctoral fellow with Konrad Hochedlinger

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

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

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

Sabrina Desbordes
Postdoctoral fellow - currently: Assistant Prof., Helmholtz Institute

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

Mark J Tomishima, PhD — Mark J Tomishima
Currently, Sr. Director, CNS Bioprocess at BlueRock Therapeutics

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

Anselme Perrier
Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Principal Investigator, iSTEM, INSERM, France

Hyesoo Kim

Currently, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

Agnete Kirkeby

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)

Louise and Allston Boyer Young Investigator in Basic Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2005)

Open Positions

Career Opportunities

There are currently open postdoc and technician positions for two specific projects in the Studer lab.

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Get in Touch

studerl@mskcc.org

Lab Head Email
212-639-6126

Office Phone
212-717-3642

Office Fax
212-639-8510

Lab Phone

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:

Bayer
Ownership / Equity Interests
BlueRock Therapeutics
Intellectual Property Rights; Ownership / Equity Interests; Provision of Services

Neurona Therapeutics
Ownership / Equity Interests; Provision of Services (uncompensated)
Vita Therapeutics, Inc.
Ownership / Equity Interests; Provision of Services (uncompensated)

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