Dr. Ludovic Vallier is a Professor of Regenerative Medicine and Senior Group Leader at the Cambridge Stem Cell Institute and the Wellcome Sanger Institute. His lab studies the basic mechanisms controlling differentiation of pluripotent cells into endoderm progenitors from which the pancreas, lung, gut and liver originate.

His latest paper in Cell Stem Cell shows that PSC lines from distinct genetic backgrounds have divergent differentiation capacity, confirming a major role for genetics in PSC phenotypic variability.