Self-organization of hESC Differentiation Patterns to Model Human Diseases in the Ectodermal Compartment
In this video, Fred Etoc discusses his research using organoids to study the developing brain.
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Fred Etoc, PhD
Fred Etoc is chief scientific officer at RUMI Scientific, where his team is developing human embryonic stem cell (hESC)-based tissue-scale models to use in drug discovery for Huntington disease and neurodevelopmental disorders. He trained as a chemist at the École normale supérieure, in Paris, before developing an interest in biology and biophysics and joining the laboratories of Ali Brivanlou and Eric Siggia as a postdoc, working to create self-organized hESC assemblies mimicking early human embryos at gastrulation stages. He is currently working to quantitatively and reproducibly model normal and pathological early neural development, combining micro-fabrication, imaging, and artificial intelligence.
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