How advanced organoid models are transforming human development and disease research

Stem cell–derived organoids are giving researchers powerful new ways to explore how human tissues grow and how diseases begin. 

By adding vascular structures, scientists can more closely mimic how real organs develop. At the same time, brain organoids made from patient cells are helping uncover what’s happening at the cellular and molecular level in neurological disorders.

In this webinar, Oscar Abilez and Thomas Durcan will talk about their work creating vascularized heart and liver organoids, and how they’re using brain organoids to study Parkinson’s disease.

Topics covered:

• Building vascularized organoids to model early heart and liver development
• Using patient-derived brain organoids to better understand Parkinson’s disease

About the speakers

• Oscar Abilez, MD, Ph.D., Senior Scientist, Stanford University
• Thomas Durcan, Ph.D., Director, The Neuro’s Early Drug Discovery Unit, McGill University

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