Re-Creating Disease with Kidney Organoids and CRISPR

In this webinar, Dr. Benjamin Freedman from the University of Washington provides an overview of re-creating disease using kidney organoids and CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing. As a postdoctoral fellow in the Renal Division at Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School, Dr. Freedman was responsible for several innovative techniques that he describes in this webinar, including differentiation of human pluripotent stem cells (hPSCs) into kidney organoids containing nephron-like segments and generating knockout mutations in organoids with CRISPR.