Development of in vitro and in vivo functional human synthetic kidney organoid (hSKO) model as a platform technology for kidney research

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Research Objective Development of a human stem cell-derived, spatially-patterned, mature and functional human synthetic kidney organoid (hSKO) model as a platform technology for basic and translational kidney research. Impact Lack…

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Hearing the Silence: Genome-wide Mapping of Cell-Type-Specific Silencers in the Developing Human Brain

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Research Objective We will develop genome editing tools to identify silencers that regulate neural stem cell fate, uncovering key DNA elements that guide neurodevelopment and are disrupted in neurodevelopmental diseases…

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Allele Prospector: Leveraging human genetic variation to enable therapeutic genome editing in hundreds of disease genes

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Research Objective We are building a foundational platform for developing genome editing technologies that increase patient coverage by 20-40X and can be applied to over 700 genetic diseases in diverse…

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An interactive data resource for hypothesis testing in stem cell single-cell gene expression and validation of the results with brain organoids

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Research Objective We are building a "virtual molecular microscope" where anyone can quickly visualize a very recent, high-throughput molecular assay, single-cell RNA-seq and spatial gene expression studies Impact Currently, a…

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