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D-Index
93
Citations
41572
World Ranking
2067
National Ranking
1128

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation

Overview

Lorenz Studer is affiliated with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the United States. Their research primarily spans biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on molecular biology, cellular and molecular neuroscience, neurology, genetics, and developmental neuroscience.

The scientist's work concentrates on topics including pluripotent stem cells research, CRISPR and genetic engineering, single-cell and spatial transcriptomics, RNA regulation and disease, neurogenesis and neuroplasticity mechanisms, genomics and chromatin dynamics, and Parkinson's disease mechanisms and treatments.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Lorenz Studer include Gabriele Ciceri, Arianna Baggiolini, Ryan Walsh, Ting Zhou, and Tae Wan Kim.

They have published extensively in several venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Cell Stem Cell, Nature Communications, Nature, and Cancer Research.

Selected recent papers by Lorenz Studer include:

  • A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Platform to Study SARS-CoV-2 Tropism and Model Virus Infection in Human Cells and Organoids, 2020, Cell Stem Cell
  • A nomenclature consensus for nervous system organoids and assembloids, 2022, Nature
  • Preclinical Efficacy and Safety of a Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Midbrain Dopamine Progenitor Product, MSK-DA01, 2021, Cell Stem Cell
  • Fully defined human pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia and tri-culture system model C3 production in Alzheimer's disease, 2021, Nature Neuroscience
  • Pluripotent stem cell-derived epithelium misidentified as brain microvascular endothelium requires ETS factors to acquire vascular fate, 2021, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Lorenz Studer received the Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation award in 2015.

Best Publications

  • Highly efficient neural conversion of human ES and iPS cells by dual inhibition of SMAD signaling

    Stuart M Chambers;Christopher A. Fasano;Eirini P. Papapetrou;Mark J. Tomishima

  • Dopamine neurons derived from human ES cells efficiently engraft in animal models of Parkinson’s disease

    Sonja Kriks;Jae Won Shim;Jinghua Piao;Yosif M. Ganat

  • Efficient generation of midbrain and hindbrain neurons from mouse embryonic stem cells

    Sang-Hun Lee;Nadya Lumelsky;Lorenz Studer;Lorenz Studer;Jonathan M. Auerbach

  • Derivation of midbrain dopamine neurons from human embryonic stem cells

    Anselme L. Perrier;Viviane Tabar;Tiziano Barberi;Maria E. Rubio

  • Modelling pathogenesis and treatment of familial dysautonomia using patient-specific iPSCs

    Gabsang Lee;Eirini P. Papapetrou;Hyesoo Kim;Stuart M. Chambers

  • Enhanced proliferation, survival, and dopaminergic differentiation of CNS precursors in lowered oxygen

    Lorenz Studer;Marie Csete;Marie Csete;Sang-Hun Lee;Sang-Hun Lee;Nadine Kabbani

  • Neural subtype specification of fertilization and nuclear transfer embryonic stem cells and application in parkinsonian mice.

    Tiziano Barberi;Peter Klivenyi;Noel Y Calingasan;Hyojin Lee

  • Human ES cell-derived neural rosettes reveal a functionally distinct early neural stem cell stage

    Yechiel Elkabetz;Georgia Panagiotakos;George Al Shamy;Nicholas D. Socci

  • Human iPSC-Based Modeling of Late-Onset Disease via Progerin-Induced Aging

    Justine D. Miller;Yosif M. Ganat;Sarah Kishinevsky;Robert L. Bowman

  • Transplantation of expanded mesencephalic precursors leads to recovery in parkinsonian rats.

    Lorenz Studer;Viviane Tabar;Viviane Tabar;Ron McKay

  • Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cell Lines Generated from Adult Somatic Cells by Nuclear Transfer

    Teruhiko Wakayama;Viviane Tabar;Ivan Rodriguez;Anthony C. F. Perry

  • Directed differentiation and functional maturation of cortical interneurons from human embryonic stem cells

    Asif M Maroof;Sotirios Keros;Jennifer Tyson;Shui-Wang Ying

  • Combined small-molecule inhibition accelerates developmental timing and converts human pluripotent stem cells into nociceptors.

    Stuart M. Chambers;Yuchen Qi;Yuchen Qi;Yvonne Mica;Gabsang Lee

  • A Human Pluripotent Stem Cell-based Platform to Study SARS-CoV-2 Tropism and Model Virus Infection in Human Cells and Organoids.

    Liuliu Yang;Yuling Han;Benjamin E. Nilsson-Payant;Vikas Gupta

  • Human iPSC-Derived Oligodendrocyte Progenitor Cells Can Myelinate and Rescue a Mouse Model of Congenital Hypomyelination

    Su Wang;Janna Bates;Xiaojie Li;Steven Schanz

  • Isolation and directed differentiation of neural crest stem cells derived from human embryonic stem cells

    Gabsang Lee;Hyesoo Kim;Yechiel Elkabetz;George Al Shamy

  • Derivation of multipotent mesenchymal precursors from human embryonic stem cells.

    Tiziano Barberi;Lucy M Willis;Nicholas D Socci;Lorenz Studer

  • Pluripotent stem cells in regenerative medicine: challenges and recent progress

    Viviane Tabar;Lorenz Studer

  • Parthenogenetic stem cells in nonhuman primates

    Jose B. Cibelli;Kathleen A. Grant;Karen B. Chapman;Kerrianne Cunniff

  • Neural transplantation for the treatment of Parkinson's disease.

    Anders Björklund;Stephen S.B. Dunnett;Patrik Brundin;Jon A.J. Stoessl

Frequent Co-Authors

Shen-Ying Zhang
Shen-Ying Zhang Rockefeller University
Ronald D. G. McKay
Ronald D. G. McKay Lieber Institute for Brain Development
Laurent Abel
Laurent Abel Université Paris Cité
Michel Sadelain
Michel Sadelain Columbia University
Christian Spenger
Christian Spenger Karolinska Institute
Katleen De Preter
Katleen De Preter Ghent University
Shuibing Chen
Shuibing Chen Cornell University
Jean-Laurent Casanova
Jean-Laurent Casanova The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Björn Menten
Björn Menten Ghent University Hospital
Luigi D. Notarangelo
Luigi D. Notarangelo National Institutes of Health

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