Steven Sheridan's Biography

Steven Sheridan, Sr Research Scientist, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Sheridan has more than ten years experience in both academia and industry deriving, expanding, differentiating and characterizing pluripotent and multipotent stem cells and their progeny for the purposes of transgenics, cell therapy, tissue engineering, and drug discovery. Most recently, his current research is focused on the derivation and characterization of human iPSCs and iPSC-derived neural stem cells from patients of various neurological disease backgrounds in order to facilitate the development of novel cell based assays. He has also served as a Senior Project and R&D Manager leading several cross-functional teams in stem cell technology development as well as establishing and maintaining many scientific cross-institutional collaborations. Dr. Sheridan currently holds an appointment at Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School. Additionally he holds appointments at MIT in the Research Laboratory of Electronics (RLE), the Picower Institute for Learning and Memory and The Broad Institute.