Kuldip Sidhu
Professor
Centre for Healthy Brain Ageing UNSW, Sydney
Australia
Biography
A/Professor Kuldip Sidhu had training with Prof James Thompson, Wisconsin USA (2000) who produced the first human embryonic stem cells in 1998 and Prof Shinya Yamanaka (2007-12), the Noble Laureate who developed iPSC technology and published data in Nature Biotechnology His research focus is on neural stem cells derived from both the embryonic and non-embryonic sources for developing future cell therapies for various neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neuronal diseases.
Research Interest
His research focus is on neural stem cells derived from both the embryonic and non-embryonic sources for developing future cell therapies for various neurodegenerative diseases, like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s and other neuronal diseases. His lab was first to produce two hESC lines, Endeavour (E) 1&2 from Australia and E2 is listed on NIH registry USA for distribution and several iPSC clones from Alzheimer’s patients for disease modelling. He is an author of two book, fifteen book chapters and 170 papers including abstracts.