title: An interview with Melissa Little.
abstract: Melissa Little is a Senior Principal Research Fellow at the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute in Melbourne, Australia. Her lab has studied kidney development and regeneration for over 20 years, recently making notable advances in the generation of kidney organoids from human iPSCs. We chatted with Melissa about her career, her thoughts on the potential of the organoid and stem cell fields, and what she hopes to achieve during her guest editorship with Development.
authors.affiliation: Online Editor, Development catarina.vicente@biologists.com.
authors.forename: Catarina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vicente
mesh_terms: D001315:Australia; D015509:Developmental Biology / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009940:Organoids / Q000378:metabolism; D010506:Periodicals as Topic