Development & Stem Cell Biology, University of California, San Francisco

Stem cell biology

The Development & Stem Cell Biology faculty is part of the Biomedical Sciences Graduate Program (BMS) at the University of California, San Francisco.

Jason Cyster, Program Director
Martin McMahon, Program Co-Director

513 Parnassus Ave., Room HSE-1285
Box 0452
San Francisco, CA 94143-0452
USA

Key topics of the development and stem cell biology programmes are cellular specification and differentiation, organogenesis, tissue morphogenesis, cell-cell signaling during development.

Scientists are working on the investigation of how mammalian cells, tissues and organs function in health and disease i.a. in areas of neuroscience including neurodevelpmental disorders, such as Parkinson’s disease, stroke and spinal cord injury.