Welcome to the Theunissen Lab!

We are a basic science laboratory in the Department of Developmental Biology at Washington University School of Medicine. Our research program is dedicated to exploring the molecular regulation of pluripotent stem cells and their applications in regenerative medicine.

Accessing the human trophoblast stem cell state

Our review article on the many paths for generating human trophoblast stem cells is now online at Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences.

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Publications

Read our latest paper on 3D stem-cell-derived trophoblast organoids in Cell Stem Cell!

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Team

Meet the members of our team