Dr. Michael Riedel is a Senior Scientist and the team lead for epithelial cell products in R&D at STEMCELL Technologies. Dr. Riedel’s team develops cell culture media and reagents for the isolation, expansion and differentiation of both primary and pluripotent stem cell-derived epithelial cells from tissues including the pancreas, liver, lung and intestine. Dr. Riedel obtained his PhD from the University of Alberta and received postdoctoral training at the University of British Columbia where his work focused on the development of cell and gene therapies for diabetes.