Dr. Martin Pera is a Principal Investigator at the Jackson Laboratories, and a pioneer in the study of human embryonic stem cells. His lab studies the regulation of self-renewal and pluripotency, heterogeneity in pluripotent stem cell populations, and neural specification of pluripotent stem cells.

His latest paper describes a subset of archetypal human pluripotent stem cells with  a high capacity for self-renewal that display unique properties.