Alysson R. Muotri

Alysson R. Muotri

Professor of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine, University of California San Diego

Alysson R. Muotri is a professor of Pediatrics and Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California San Diego. Alysson earned a BSc in Biological Sciences from the State University of Campinas in 1995 and a Ph.D. in Genetics in 2001 from University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil. He moved to the Salk Institute as Pew Latin America Fellow in 2002 for a postdoctoral training in the fields of neuroscience and stem cell biology. He has been a professor at the School of Medicine, University of California San Diego, since 2008. 

Articles by: Alysson R. Muotri

A brain grown in a lab.

Why are scientists trying to manufacture organs in space?

By Alysson R. Muotri published

Why are scientists trying to grow organs at the International Space Station? People live on Earth not in zero-gravity. A stem cell expert explains why it is useful to do these experiments in space.