
Developmental Biology Program
The Lorenz Studer Lab
Research

Professor
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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Giacomelli E, Vahsen BF, Calder EL, Xu Y, Scaber J, Gray E, Dafinca R, Talbot K, Studer L. Human stem cell models of neurodegeneration: From basic science of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis to clinical translation. Cell Stem Cell. 2022 Jan 6;29(1):11-35. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2021.12.008.PMID: 34995492
Baggiolini A, Callahan SJ, Montal E, Weiss JM, Trieu T, Tagore MM, Tischfield SE, Walsh RM, Suresh S, Fan Y, Campbell NR, Perlee SC, Saurat N, Hunter MV, Simon-Vermot T, Huang TH, Ma Y, Hollmann T, Tickoo SK, Taylor BS, Khurana E, Koche RP, Studer L, White RM. Developmental chromatin programs determine oncogenic competence in melanoma. Science. 2021 Sep 3;373(6559):eabc1048. doi: 10.1126/science.abc1048. Epub 2021 Sep 3.PMID: 34516843
Kim TW, Piao J, Koo SY, Kriks S, Chung SY, Betel D, Socci ND, Choi SJ, Zabierowski S, Dubose BN, Hill EJ, Mosharov EV, Irion S, Tomishima MJ, Tabar V, Studer L. Biphasic Activation of WNT Signaling Facilitates the Derivation of Midbrain Dopamine Neurons from hESCs for Translational Use. Cell Stem Cell. 2021 Feb 4;28(2):343-355.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2021.01.005.PMID: 33545081
Piao J, Zabierowski S, Dubose BN, Hill EJ, Navare M, Claros N, Rosen S, Ramnarine K, Horn C, Fredrickson C, Wong K, Safford B, Kriks S, El Maarouf A, Rutishauser U, Henchcliffe C, Wang Y, Riviere I, Mann S, Bermudez V, Irion S, Studer L, Tomishima M, Tabar V. Preclinical Efficacy and Safety of a Human Embryonic Stem Cell-Derived Midbrain Dopamine Progenitor Product, MSK-DA01. Cell Stem Cell. 2021 Feb 4;28(2):217-229.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2021.01.004.PMID: 33545080
Guttikonda SR, Sikkema L, Tchieu J, Saurat N, Walsh RM, Harschnitz O, Ciceri G, Sneeboer M, Mazutis L, Setty M, Zumbo P, Betel D, de Witte LD, Pe’er D, Studer L. Fully defined human pluripotent stem cell-derived microglia and tri-culture system model C3 production in Alzheimer’s disease. Nat Neurosci. 2021 Feb 8. doi: 10.1038/s41593-020-00796-z. Online ahead of print.PMID: 33558694
People

Lorenz Studer, MD
Director, Center for Stem Cell Biology
Professor
- 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
- [email protected]
- Email Address
- 212-639-6126
- Office Phone
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Lab Technician - currently: MD/PhD student

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Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Assistant Professor, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, OH

Vice President, Director of Medical Strategy at Havas Health & You, New York, NY

Graduate Student – currently: Resident in Radiation Oncology, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Neurology resident, Mount Sinai Medical School, New York, NY

Postdoctoral fellow – currently, Assistant Professor, University of Georgia

Graduate Student - currently, Sandler Faculty Fellow, UCSF

Postdoctoral Fellow – currently: Group leader, Helmholtz Zentrum, Munich, Germany

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Group leader, Evotec, Hamburg, Germany

Medical Student, Weill Cornell - currently: Physician/Psychiatrist, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Lab Technician - currently: medical student, Harvard University

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Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Senior Machine Learning Engineer - Digital Intelligence at JPMorgan Chase & Co.

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Consultant, The Boston Consulting Group

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

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Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Freelance Neurologist and Stem Cell Expert, Germany

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently: Research Investigator, Arvinas,, New Haven, CT

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Postdoctoral Fellow - currently Senior Scientist at Neurona Therapeutics Inc

Postdoctoral fellow - currently: Assistant Prof., Soonchunhayng University

Postdoctoral Fellow - currently, Senior Scientist at Amgen

Principal Scientist at AbbVie, Boston, MA

PhD student – currently: Senior Scientist, BlueRock Thearpeutics, New York, NY

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

Graduate Student - currently: Senior Scientist, Cellarity

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

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

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

Postdoctoral fellow - currently: Assistant Prof., Helmholtz Institute

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

Currently, Sr. Director, CNS Bioprocess at BlueRock Therapeutics

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

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

Currently, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine

PhD student – currently, Associate Professor of Stem Cell Biology, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Lab Affiliations
Achievements
- ISSCR Achievement Award (2022)
- 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)
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- Annemarie Opprecht Parkinson Award, Annemarie Opprecht Foundation (2012)
- Louise and Allston Boyer Young Investigator in Basic Research, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (2005)
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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:
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BlueRock Therapeutics
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DaCapo Brainscience, Inc.
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Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc.
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Luxa Biotechnology, LLC
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Neurona Therapeutics
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Roche
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Rumi Scientific, Inc.
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Vita Therapeutics, Inc.
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