Gist Croft

Gist’s career interest is to use stem cells to model human development and neurodegenerative disease. He has been a Senior Research Investigator at the New York Stem Cell Foundation Research institute for 6 years. As a Research Associate in the Brivanlou Lab at The Rockefeller University, and Director of the Human Stem Cell Core, he lead the development of a new model of human embryo implantation (a Science Breakthrough of the Year 2016), and developed an isogenic stem cell model of Huntington’s disease, which illuminated early developmental, loss of function chromosomal instability phenotypes (2018). As a graduate student at Columbia University, with Hynek Wichterle, and Chris Henderson, he collaborated on the first human stem cell model of ALS (Science and Time Breakthroughs of the Year 2008) and the first ALS patient stem cell cohorts and motor neuron subtype differentiation approaches (2011, 2013).