Longtime ISSCR member Ola Hermanson of Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet uses an integrative approach to study neural development and cellular events that he hopes (only half-jokingly) will eventually lead to a clone of his own brain.

"Such a 'silly' goal, however, results in a lot of serious questions..." says Hermanson.

Find out more about those questions and how this “old wannabe-hipster” musician became a stem cell scientist at all in this month’s Member Spotlight.