Neurodegenerative Disorders
Our ultimate goal is to understand how we can harness the brain’s
own stem cells and/or modulate nerve cell’s connections (i.e. how we
can harness neural plasticity) to help treat Parkinson’s disease,
spinal cord injury and Alzheimer’s disease, all of which result from
loss of nerve cells and their connections from specific regions of the
nervous system. We study how abnormal signalling at nerve cell
junctions contributes to these movement and memory disorders and we
work to understand why the nervous system’s own repair systems, i.e.
the formation of new nerve cells, is ineffective in these conditions.
We hope to find novel stem cell treatments that will profoundly impact
people with brain diseases.
Staff
| Research Officer Dr Sonja Janmaat |
Research Assistant Tin Cheung |
| Research Officer Andrea Abdipranoto |
James Daniel |
Sara Wu |
Sandy Stayte |
