Arnold Richard Kriegstein is a neurologist and neuroscientist at the University of California, San Francisco, where he served as director of the UCSF Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research from 2004 to 2021.
Following residency, Kriegstein began his academic career at Stanford University where he worked for ten years, serving as a pediatric and adult neurologist as well as starting his research laboratory.
[2] Kriegstein joined the University of California, San Francisco, in 2004, where he became the John Bowes Distinguished Professor in Stem Cell and Tissue Biology and founding director of the UCSF Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regeneration Medicine and Stem Cell Research.
[5] The building houses one of the largest stem cell programs in the United States with over 70 laboratories.
[9] Over the past several years, Kriegstein has applied strategies for massively parallel profiling molecular and physiological properties of primary human cortical cells using microfluidic technologies, cellular barcoding, and timelapse microscopy to identify additional progenitor cell types.