Dr. Wernig, a Professor at Stanford University, focuses on pluripotent stem cell biology and neural cell fate decisions in organoid models. His lab pioneered the generation of functional neuronal cells directly reprogrammed from skin fibroblasts, termed induced neuronal (iN) cells. They now investigate molecular mechanisms of induced lineage fate changes, disease-causing mutations in human neurons, and therapeutic strategies for monogenetic diseases using gene targeting and cell transplantation.