Daniel Medina-Cano, PhD

Daniel Medina-Cano, PhD, is a postdoctoral research associate at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in the Developmental Biology Program. He earned his PhD at the Imagine Institute in Paris. He has developed new in vitro tools to interrogate the basic mechanisms of brain development and improved the culture of mouse stem cells and used this improved methodology to generate robust mouse brain organoid protocols. He is now applying these systems to understand how genetic variation and molecular pathways control the early stages of brain development, with emphasis on the mechanisms underlying cell fate decisions.