The outreach goal of our lab is to understand the mechanisms that cause neurological diseases. Since we don’t have access to the human brain to study what goes awry in neurological disorders, there is an urgent need to create physiological model systems that faithfully mimic the biology and building blocks of the human brain. Mansour’s lab research focuses on developing such models, mainly 3D brain organoids that faithfully recapitulate aspects of the human brain, and harness these models together with patient-specific stem cells to study neurological disorde