Campus News

Research in 60 seconds: Creating a synthetic kidney with USC scientist Zhongwei Li

April 12, 2023

Dr. Zhongwei Li and his team aim to bridge basic studies of kidney organogenesis and translational applications of stem/progenitor cell-based kidney regeneration and disease modeling, with the long-term goal of rebuilding the kidney. They achieve this by combining state-of-the-art stem cell technologies and engineering methodologies.