Lectures and seminars The Ernest Arenas Memorial Lecture: Repairing the human brain using transplants- Is it possible? The story of Parkinson's disease.
Welcome to The Ernest Arenas Memorial Lecture with Professor Roger Barker, Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and Consultant Neurologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Title
"Repairing the human brain using transplants- Is it possible? The story in Parkinson's disease"
Speaker
Professor Roger Barker, Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and Consultant Neurologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital.
Roger Barker is the Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and Consultant Neurologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He runs the regional NHS Huntington's Disease (HD) as well as clinics in Parkinson's Disease (PD). His research investigates the heterogeneity of these disorders and their underlying basis, which has informed his work on trialling new experimental therapeutics for these conditions, including cell and gene therapies, as well as drug repurposing. He is the lead academic scientist of the Drug Discovery Institute in Cambridge, as well as the John Van Geest Centre for Brain Repair and Chair of Neurodegeneration at LifeArc. He is Co-editor in chief of the Journal of Neurology. He has published over 600 papers and worked very closely with the late Ernest Arenas at the KI for many years.
Hosts
Division of Molecular Neurobiology, Karolinska Institutet and Asociación de Científicos Españoles en Suecia (ACES).