Gordon Keller is Director of the McEwen Centre for Regenerative Medicine at the University Health Network in Toronto, Canada. His research applies concepts from developmental biology to the investigation of the lineage-specific differentiation of mouse and human embryonic stem (ES) cells. He became an Editor of Development in 2011, and recently we asked him a few questions to find out more about him and his research.
Who or what inspired you to study science?
I was always curious, and I found a scientific career to be one that allowed me to explore my curiosity.
What sparked your interest to work on the directed differentiation of stem cells?
That was a seminar by Rolf Kemler in 1984. I was in the Basel Institute for Immunology – I had arrived there about a year earlier – and Rolf came to the institute and showed us these beautiful, huge cystic embryoid bodies, in...
