Laurent Roybon, PhD, received his PhD from the Wallenberg Neuroscience Center at Lund University, Sweden, under the supervision of Prof. Jia-Yi Li in 2006. Immediately after, he completed two postdoctoral fellowships: first, at Lund University under the supervision of Prof. Patrik Brundin from 2006 to early 2009, and second, at Project ALS Laboratory for Stem Cell Research at the Motor Neuron Center, Columbia University, New York, under the supervision of Prof. Christopher E. Henderson and Prof. Hynek Wichterle from early 2009 to 2011. Since 2011, he has been the group leader of the iPSC Laboratory for CNS Disease Modeling at Lund University. His research utilizes human pluripotent stem cells (cells that can give rise to any type of cells in the human body; iPSCs) as a tool for studying neurodegeneration, in particular, Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease. Notably, his laboratory developed experimental setups involving nerve cells derived from iPSCs donated by people with PD. These setups can be used for mechanistic studies and drug discovery.