Through their KidneyX prize, Dr. Nils Lindström Nils Lindstrom and his team at the University of Southern California are advancing the next generation of functional artificial kidneys using stem cells. Watch to learn more youtu.be/eoANNmUtrHs?si…

To democratize access to lab-grown organ-like structures known as organoids and other advanced stem cell and transcriptomic technologies, USC Stem Cell will launch the CIRM ASCEND Center. California Institute for Regenerative Medicine stemcell.keck.usc.edu/3-95-million-c…

Celebrating #WorldKidneyDay with UKRO and Zhongwei Li’s lab USC Stem Cell and @KeckSchool_USC. Zhongwei Li and colleagues McMahon Lab, Nils Lindstrom and Janos Peti-Peterdi are progressing on generating a transplantable kidney from human stem cells to replace dialysis.

Congratulations to all on this milestone paper from Zhongwei Li’s group! Self renewing nephron progenitors in a dish opens exciting avenues for kidney research!! authors.elsevier.com/c/1j0HC6tu0Cpv… USC Stem Cell Zhongwei Li

A new USC Stem Cell study, led by Zhongwei Li's Lab (Zhongwei Li), introduces a new and improved way to grow the cells that give rise to the kidney’s filtration system. McMahon Lab Nils Lindstrom UKRO Cell Press NIH Common Fund stemcell.keck.usc.edu/usc-led-study-…

We have two 1-year positions with a 1-year renewal option available for clinical trainees interested in conducting research related to stem cell biology and/or regenerative medicine in one of the leading labs USC Stem Cell. @KeckSchool_USC stemcell.keck.usc.edu/2024-call-for-…

How similar is kidney development in humans and in lab mice that form the foundation of basic medical research? In a new study published in Developmental Cell, USC Stem Cell scientists probe this question. McMahon Lab Nils Lindstrom Keck School of Medicine of USC stemcell.keck.usc.edu/study-maps-how…

Development Marcella Birtele For any neuroscience departments looking for junior faculty Marcella would be a terrific hire.

I am excited to share our work discovering neuro-endothelial cells (NECs) - a subtype of #endothelial cells that regulate #brain and #kidney blood flow and #immune balance - now available online! Movie: NECs (green) in the mouse motor cortex #vasculature. biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Genes aren’t the sole driver instructing cells to build multicellular structures. In a paper in Nature Communications, USC Stem Cell scientist Leonardo Morsut and Caltech computational biologist Matt Thomson characterize the influence of cell density. stemcell.keck.usc.edu/exerting-crowd…

tldr: we identify a new organizer activity in vivo in human developing kidney, noticed the lack of said organizing activity in kidney organoids and reconstituted the organizer action in vitro via synthetic organizers - longer thread on bluesky! Nils Lindstrom

Such a great collaboration with Leonardo Morsut and his team - am now certain that the way forward is through collaborations like these where devbio and synbio co-develop concepts. #wewillbuildakidney

The outer ear is a mammalian innovation but where did it come from? In our study in nature, Mathi Thiruppathy and colleagues find that the outer ear arose from modification of an ancestral gill program first originating in marine invertebrates. nature.com/articles/s4158… 1/n

Check out Mark Corkins’ collaborative preprint with Adrián Romero Mora from our lab and MaryAnne Achieng from Nils Lindstrom using comparative single-cell sequencing and in situ to create this beautiful spatial model of the developing adult frog kidney! biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

Pleased to be sharing this chapter written with Nils Nils Lindstrom for Current Topics in Developmental Biology! Here we dive into how #nephrons establish proximal-distal patterning during #KidneyDevelopment & what this means for #StemCell-derived nephrons: authors.elsevier.com/a/1kWLp_1cBJyr…

Great to have the chance to discuss the future of kidney organoid technologies and the basis of kidney development & function with Jess Jessica M Vanslambrouck Looking forward to more collaborations and insights to make next generation stem cell derived kidney models!

How do you break symmetry along a cell planar axis? Of course WNT/BMP/FGF/NOTCH compete and talk. Each nephron is like an embryo patterning along its AP axis. Nils Lindstrom USC Stem Cell doi.org/10.1101/2025.0…

Well done to MaryAnne Achieng who has made microscopy of organoids an artform.