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Headshot of Gay Crooks in a blue sweater
A section of an artificial thymic organoid showing T cells (outlined in green) created from blood stem cells. | UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center/Cell Reports
Illustration of Gay Crooks, MBBS, and Christopher Seet, MD, PhD
Microscope image of dendritic cells produced from blood-forming stem cells. Dr. Christopher Seet, top right, and Dr. Gay Crooks.
Research by UCLA’s Gay Crooks, Amélie Montel-Hagen and Christopher Seet could point the way toward “off-the-shelf” T cell therapies that are more readily available to patients.
T cells (red) produced using artificial thymic organoids developed at UCLA.
David Casero (left) and Dr. Gay Crooks