An interview with Claudio Stern.

Claudio Stern is the J. Z. Young Professor of Anatomy at University College London (UCL), UK. His lab studies the processes that regulate patterning and cell diversity in the early embryos of vertebrates, mostly in chick. Claudio, an elected fellow of the Royal Society, the UK Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Latin-American Academy of Medical Sciences, was awarded the 2006 Waddington Medal by the British Society of Developmental Biology, and he also served as President of the International Society for Developmental Biology (ISDB) from 2010-2013. At the 18th Congress of the ISDB (Singapore, June 2017), Claudio was awarded the ISDB's Ross Harrison Prize, which recognises an individual's outstanding contributions to developmental biology. We met with Claudio to ask him more about his career, his thoughts on the field, and his advice for early career researchers.