Preface

Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells: Current Progress and Future Perspectives

Qi Zhou, PhD, Professor and Director of State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Biology, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), China. Dr. Zhou is the Chief Scientist of the Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine Project of CAS. The current research interests of his lab mainly focus on mechanisms of cellular programming and reprogramming, as well as developing new techniques to improve reprogramming efficiency and establishing cellular and animal models for basic and clinical researches. His group has created the first iPS animal “tiny” mouse, identified a molecular marker for assessing the pluripotency level of iPS cells, generated mouse haploid embryonic stem cell lines and obtained the first live transgenic mouse produced from haploid embryonic stem cells. He has published more than 60 papers in scientific journals including Nature, Science, Nature Biotechnology, PNAS, etc.