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LAB NEWS:
  • Sergiu receives the 2022 IBRO-Kemali Prize in Neuroscience [press release]
  • New paper published in Cell 
  • Sergiu receives the prestigious Judson Daland Prize from American Society of Philosophy and the Joseph Altman Award Award for Developmental Neurobiology. NYSCF coverage. 
  • The Big Idea on Human Brain Organogenesis led by Sergiu Pasca and Karl Deisseroth receives support from the Stanford Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute! 
  • Our new work on long-term cortical organoid cultures is out in Nature Neuroscience. 
  • Assembloids are listed as 2021 Methods to Watch by Nature Methods! 
  • Our Cell paper has been selected for the cover of the December 2020 issue. 
  • The most advanced brain assembloid article to date published in Cell. Congratulations Jimena and the team! 
  • New assembloid article published in Nature Biotechnology. Congratulations Yuki and the team! 
  • New work on modeling a common genetic cause of neuropsychiatric disease– 22q11.2 deletion syndrome, is published in Nature Medicine. [Stanford press release] [NIH press release]
  • ​Freddy Valencia joins the lab as a Stanford Science Scholar coming from Harvard University! Welcome! 
  • Ji-il Kim joins the lab coming from Seoul National University! Welcome! 
  • New paper on chromatin dynamics in human forebrain development published in Science
  • The hands-on Stanford Brain Organogenesis Workshop took place in January 2020 
  • Sergiu profiled in The Scientist
  • Turning point profile featuring 25 physician-scientists published in Nature Medicine
  • Lab has relocated to the Clark Center Building, Bio-X! 
  • Model of hypoxic encephalopathy published as cover article in Nature Medicine [press release]
  • ​Paper on reliability of brain-region specific organoids published in Nature Methods. 
  • Overview on brain assembloids published in Science
  • Sergiu becomes a Ben Barres Investigator and the lab receives a $2,5 mil grant award from CZI 
  • ​Stanford Medicine Magazine story featuring our work​
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