Louise C. Laurent, MD/PhD is the Director of Perinatal Research for the UCSD Department of Reproductive Medicine and a member of the UCSD Embryonic Stem Cell Research Oversight Committee. She is also Co-chair of the Steering Committee and co-chair of the Sample and Assay Standards Working Group for the NIH Extracellular RNA Communication Consortium. Read full bio​

​ Our lab applies our expertise in human pluripotent stem cell research and genomics to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying normal and abnormal human development, in order to improve the health of mothers and babies.

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Abnormalities in human pluripotent cells due to reprogramming mechanisms

Ma H, Morey R, O’Neil RC, He Y, Daughtry B, Schultz MD, Hariharan M, Nery JR, Castanon R, Sabatini K, Thiagarajan RD, Tachibana M, Kang E, Tippner-Hedges R, Ahmed R, Gutierrez NM, Van Dyken C, Polat A, Sugawara A, Sparman M, Gokhale S, Amato P, Wolf DP, Ecker JR*, Laurent LC*, Mitalipov S*

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