Director, Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research, UC San Francisco
Department of Neurology

Kriegstein’s research in our lab focuses on the way in which neural stem and progenitor cells produce neurons, and ways in which this information can be used for cell based therapies to treat diseases of the nervous system. He has found that radial glial cells, long thought to simply guide nerve cells during migration, are neuronal stem cells in the developing brain.