Meri Firpo
Assistant Professor
Department of Medicine
University of Minnesota
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Firpo received her Ph.D. from the Cornell University Medical College Graduate School of Medical Sciences after completing a research project at the Sloan Kettering Institute in the laboratory of Malcolm A.S. Moore. Her research at the Sloan Kettering Institute was focused on adult bone marrow stem cells and congenital neutropenia. She then did a postdoctoral fellowship at the National Jewish Institute for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine in Denver, Colorado, where she completed a project on generating hematopoietic stem cells from mouse embryonic stem (ES) cells in culture in the laboratory of Gordon Keller. Dr. Firpo did a second postdoctoral fellowship at the DNAX Research Institute for Molecular and Cellular Biology in Palo Alto, California, where she studied the development of the human hematopoietic system and human models of leukemia with Maria-Grazia Roncarolo and Reiko Namikawa.
Research Interest
Dr. Firpo is an Assistant Professor in the Stem Cell Institute and the Department of Medicine and Division of Endocrinology at the University of Minnesota, where she works on stem cell biology, and transplantation therapies for diabetes using human embryonic stem cells.
