Dr. Kriegstein received a B.S. from Yale University (1971) and an M.D. and Ph.D. from New York University (1977). He completed his neurology residency at Brigham and Women’s, Children’s, and Beth Israel Hospitals in Boston and is a board-certified clinical neurologist. He held academic positions at Stanford, Yale, and Columbia before joining UCSF in 2004. Dr. Kriegstein is a professor of neurology and the Founding Director of the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCSF. He was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2008. Dr. Kriegstein’s research focuses on the stem cell niche and the mechanisms by which neural stem and progenitor cells generate neurons in the developing brain. He has elucidated the role of radial glia in neurogenesis and described the roles of radial glia subtypes during human brain development. More recently, he has been applying single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to identify stem and progenitor subtypes during the development of the human cerebral cortex. His studies have shed light on the relationship between developing neuronal subtypes and neurodevelopmental disorders and cancer. He has also launched a multi-institutional project to create developmental atlases of the human and nonhuman primate brain and is a co-founder of Neurona Therapeutics, a company developing cell therapies for epilepsy.
