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Alysson R. Muotri, a professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego, is a brain organoid expert and neuroscientist.Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).</ref>

Early life and education

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As a child growing up in São Paulo, Brazil, he became interested in nature.Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page).

Muotri graduated in 1995 with a Bachelor of Science in biological sciences from the State University of Campinas. He earned a doctorate degree in genetics in 2001 from the University of Sao Paulo, in Brazil. He went on to the Salk Institute as a Pew Latin America Fellow in 2002 for a postdoctoral training in the fields of neuroscience and stem cell biology.[1]

Career

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Muotri has been a professor at the School of Medicine, University of California in San Diego since 2008 and is a director of the university's Stem Cell Program.[2]

He created his first brain organoids – clusters of living brain cells[3] – in 2014 with stem cells from the father of an autistic boy.[4] Tiny “brains," called organoids, have been grown in the Muotri Lab, named after him, at the University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine since 2011.[5]

Personal life

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In 2016, Muotri married Andrea Coimbra, from Brazil, whose son Ivan, then 5, has severe autism. She contacted Muotri in 2010 after learning from a television interview about his work with autism, and the couple eventually met and married.[6]

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