Scientific Advisory Board
Our Scientific Advisory Board members have published many of the discoveries that drive stem cell science today. We work closely with their laboratories in order to make their results reproducible simultaneously with publication whenever possible, and as soon as possible whenever it's not. Their investigations reflect the broad range of disciplines needed to energize the next new wave of breakthroughs. And when they do, you'll have the Stemgent reagents and tools you need to replicate their results.
SAB Members
Hongkui Deng, Ph.D.Small molecules, stem cell differentiation, and chemistryProfessor of Cell Biology and Genetics, College of Life Sciences, Peking University
When the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced the 43 winners of its Grand Challenges in Global Health, Hongkui Deng was one of just two Chinese scientists who made the list. Deng won $1.9 million for a proposal to use stem cells to create mouse models for testing HIV and hepatitis C vaccines. Regarded as one of China's leading stem cell scientists Honkui Deng received his Ph.D. in Immunology at the University of California at Los Angeles. He returned to China in 2001 as the Cheung Kong Scholar Professor at Peking University where he remains today. He is best known for the development of stem cells that can produce natural insulin — a critical innovation given the rising incidence of diabetes throughout the Asian region. He is also undertaking research on HIV, hepatitis C and SARS vaccines, again using stem cells to test ideas about cause and effect. He now works on the differentiation of human embryonic stem cells into beta cells to rescue diabetes. He also put his expertise in infectious diseases to good use during the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome (Nature 439, 382—383; 2006) and has published several important papers about the disease. |
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