It is springtime, which means we are on the verge of regeneration of nature, our enthusiasm, and enjoyment of warmth and beauty. And so it is appropriate to turn our attention to regeneration as it relates to biomedical research and precision medicine as a tool in that research.

Dr. Stephen Duncan is a professor and the chair in the Department of Regenerative Medicine and SmartState chair in liver development and disease. A native of Glasgow, Scotland in the United Kingdom, Dr. Duncan received his PhD and doctorate in Philosophy from Wolfson College at Oxford University in 1992. He then moved to the Rockefeller Center in New York City to undertake a post-doc fellowship. He transferred to the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee in 1997, where he moved through the ranks to become the Marcus Professor in Human and Molecular Genetics in the Department of Cell Biology, Neurobiology, and Anatomy. In 2007, he accepted a position as the founding director of Medical College of Wisconsin's program in regenerative medicine. He joined MUSC in 2015.