USC Stem Cell scientist Zhongwei Li could have gone into the family restaurant business. Instead, he’s dedicated his career to experimenting with a very different set of ingredients: kidney stem cells.

“The kidney is a very important organ, and it is also a very fragile organ,” he said. “More than 10 percent of people develop chronic kidney diseases, and 80 percent of people who need organ transplantations actually need kidneys.”

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