Arnold Kriegstein

Dr. Arnold Kriegstein is a Professor of Neurology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) Weill Institute for Neurosciences, and Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research. He obtained his bachelors in biology and psychology at Yale University (1971), and his medical and doctoral degrees at the New York University (1977) under the supervision of Dr. Eric Kandel. Kriegstein completed a residency in Neurology at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital, and Beth Israel Hospital in Boston in 1981. He has held academic appointments at Stanford University (1981-1991), Yale University (1991-1993), and Columbia University (1993-2004). In 2004, Kriegstein joined the faculty in the Neurology Department at the University of California, San Francisco, where his lab studies the principles of neuronal development. In particular, they study how progenitor cells in the embryonic brain produce neurons. For his scientific contributions, he became a member of the National Academy of Medicine in 2008. Visit his lab website and learn more about Kriegstein’s research.