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Overview

Roger A. Pedersen is affiliated with the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom. Their research spans several areas within the biological and medical sciences, focusing primarily on Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology as well as Medicine.

Their scientific work covers several subfields, notably Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, and Physiology. Pedersen's main topics of research include:

  • Congenital heart defects research
  • Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
  • Congenital Heart Disease Studies
  • Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
  • CRISPR and Genetic Engineering
  • Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
  • Planarian Biology and Electrostimulation

Pedersen has contributed publications to various scientific journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Nature Communications
  • Stem Cell Reports
  • Cell stem cell
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Pedersen are:

  • ISSCR guidelines for the transfer of human pluripotent stem cells and their direct derivatives into animal hosts, 2021, Stem Cell Reports
  • Retinoic acid signaling modulation guides in vitro specification of human heart field-specific progenitor pools, 2023, Nature Communications
  • Human-monkey chimeras: Monkey see, monkey do, 2021, Cell stem cell
  • Retinoic acid signaling modulation guides in vitro specification of human heart field-specific progenitor pools, 2022, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)

The scientist has worked frequently with the following coauthors:

  • Dorota Zawada
  • Jessica Kornherr
  • Anna B. Meier
  • Gianluca Santamaria
  • Tatjana Dorn

Best Publications

  • Derivation of pluripotent epiblast stem cells from mammalian embryos

    I. Gabrielle M. Brons;Lucy E. Smithers;Matthew W. B. Trotter;Peter Rugg-Gunn

  • Characterization of human embryonic stem cell lines by the International Stem Cell Initiative

    Oluseun Adewumi;Behrouz Aflatoonian;Lars Ahrlund-Richter;Michal Amit

  • Epithelial immaturity and multiorgan failure in mice lacking epidermal growth factor receptor

    Päivi J. Miettinen;Joel E. Berger;Juanito Meneses;Yume Phung

  • Activin/Nodal and FGF pathways cooperate to maintain pluripotency of human embryonic stem cells.

    Ludovic Vallier;Morgan Alexander;Roger A. Pedersen

  • Clonal analysis of epiblast fate during germ layer formation in the mouse embryo

    K.A. Lawson;J.J. Meneses;R.A. Pedersen

  • Mice lacking the homeodomain transcription factor Nkx2.2 have diabetes due to arrested differentiation of pancreatic beta cells

    L. Sussel;J. Kalamaras;D. J. Hartigan-O'connor;J. J. Meneses

  • Deletion of beta 1 integrins in mice results in inner cell mass failure and peri-implantation lethality.

    L E Stephens;A E Sutherland;I V Klimanskaya;A Andrieux

  • Role of the Dlx homeobox genes in proximodistal patterning of the branchial arches: mutations of Dlx-1, Dlx-2, and Dlx-1 and -2 alter morphogenesis of proximal skeletal and soft tissue structures derived from the first and second arches.

    Mengsheng Qiu;Alessandro Bulfone;Ingrid Ghattas;Juanito J. Meneses

  • MUTATIONS OF THE HOMEOBOX GENES DLX-1 AND DLX-2 DISRUPT THE STRIATAL SUBVENTRICULAR ZONE AND DIFFERENTIATION OF LATE BORN STRIATAL NEURONS

    Stewart A Anderson;Mengsheng Qiu;Alessandro Bulfone;David D Eisenstat

  • Generation of functional hepatocytes from human embryonic stem cells under chemically defined conditions that recapitulate liver development

    Thomas Touboul;Nicholas R F Hannan;Sébastien Corbineau;Amélie Martinez

  • Activin/Nodal signalling maintains pluripotency by controlling Nanog expression

    Ludovic Vallier;Sasha Mendjan;Stephanie Brown;Zhenzhi Chng

  • Banking on human embryonic stem cells: estimating the number of donor cell lines needed for HLA matching

    Craig J Taylor;Eleanor M Bolton;Susan Pocock;Linda D Sharples

  • Null mutation of Dlx-2 results in abnormal morphogenesis of proximal first and second branchial arch derivatives and abnormal differentiation in the forebrain.

    Mengsheng Qiu;A. Bulfone;S. Martinez;J. J. Meneses

  • Nodal inhibits differentiation of human embryonic stem cells along the neuroectodermal default pathway

    Ludovic Vallier;Daniel Reynolds;Roger A. Pedersen

  • BRACHYURY and CDX2 Mediate BMP-Induced Differentiation of Human and Mouse Pluripotent Stem Cells into Embryonic and Extraembryonic Lineages

    Andreia S. Bernardo;Tiago Faial;Tiago Faial;Lucy Gardner;Kathy K. Niakan

  • Requirement for the Xrcc1 DNA base excision repair gene during early mouse development.

    Robert S. Tebbs;Margaret L. Flannery;Juanito J. Meneses;Andreas Hartmann

  • Dlx5 regulates regional development of the branchial arches and sensory capsules.

    M. J. Depew;Jen Kuei Liu;J. E. Long;R. Presley

  • Generation of human vascular smooth muscle subtypes provides insight into embryological origin–dependent disease susceptibility

    Christine Cheung;Andreia S Bernardo;Matthew W B Trotter;Roger A Pedersen

  • Integrin α8β1 Is Critically Important for Epithelial–Mesenchymal Interactions during Kidney Morphogenesis

    Ulrich Müller;Denan Wang;Sumiko Denda;Juanito J. Meneses

  • Human pre-implantation embryo development

    Kathy K. Niakan;Jinnuo Han;Roger A. Pedersen;Carlos Simon

Frequent Co-Authors

Ludovic Vallier
Ludovic Vallier University of Cambridge
John L.R. Rubenstein
John L.R. Rubenstein University of California, San Francisco
James C. Smith
James C. Smith The Francis Crick Institute
Zena Werb
Zena Werb University of California, San Francisco
Siddharthan Chandran
Siddharthan Chandran University of Edinburgh
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith
Anne C. Ferguson-Smith University of Cambridge
James E. Cleaver
James E. Cleaver University of California, San Francisco
Andras Dinnyes
Andras Dinnyes Szent István University
Giles E. Hardingham
Giles E. Hardingham University of Edinburgh
Willem H. Ouwehand
Willem H. Ouwehand University of Cambridge

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