Gregor Adams's Biography

Gregor Adams, Assistant Professor, University of Southern California

Gregor B. Adams, Ph.D. obtained a B.Sc. in Molecular Biology from the University of Edinburgh, UK, and his Ph.D. from Imperial College School of Medicine in London, UK. He performed his post-doctoral research in the laboratory of Dr. David Scadden at Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Here his research emphasis was on the interaction of the hematopoietic stem cells with their microenvironmental niche. He co-authored seminal work describing the role of the osteoblast as a key component of the bone marrow stem cell niche, and followed this up by identifying signaling pathways involved in stem cell-niche biology and methods to enhance stem cell-niche interactions. Currently, Dr. Adams is an Assistant Professor in the Eli and Edythe Broad Center for Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at the University of Southern California. His research program is still focused on the hematopoietic stem cell niche in the bone marrow, in particular using forward genetic approaches to elucidate the signaling pathways involved in niche-mediated stem cell self-renewal.