Guo-li Ming, a Chinese-American neuroscientist and professor at the University of Pennsylvania, is a pioneer in using patient-derived human stem cells to study neurodevelopmental disorders. Trained first as a physician in China and later as a neuroscientist in the United States, Ming built her career around one goal: understanding how the human brain develops, adapts, and becomes vulnerable to disease. Early in her career, she made fundamental discoveries about how neurons gr