Affiliation: RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research

Dr. Cody Kime is a cell program hacker trained in molecular, stem cell, and developmental biology, and is primarily known for pioneering systems in the emerging field of Synthetic Embryology. He has worked in the lab of Shinya Yamanaka as a California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Bridges Scholar and became a Doctor of Medical Sciences with Masayo Takahashi at RIKEN, where he leads a cell reprogramming team. Dr. Kime is laser focused on the fundamental basis of epigenetic reprogramming and developmental cell identity at the molecular, genetic, cellular, and tissue levels of control. In that multidisciplinary realm he creates new stem cell and reprogramming systems to expand unprecedented research in embryogenesis, epigenetic plasticity, and future technology-oriented medicine.