Dr. Cody Kime is a cell program hacker with a passion for creative biogenesis and experimentation. After training in molecular, stem cell, and developmental biology, he joined the lab of Shinya Yamanaka as a California Institute of Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) Bridges Scholar. He later entered the Kyoto University of Medicine to experience translational medicine in the lab of Masayo Takahashi at RIKEN where he is currently developing a cell reprogramming team. Dr. Kime is laser focused on exploring the fundamental basis of epigenetic reprogramming and developmental cell identity at the molecular, genetic, cellular, and tissue levels of control. In that multidisciplinary realm he creates new stem cell and reprogramming systems to expand unprecedented research in embryogenesis, epigenetic plasticity, and future technology-oriented medicine.