Cambridge scientists pioneer brain implants to repair Parkinson’s damage
SciTechDaily - 15-Feb-2025A breakthrough approach using brain cell implants to restore lost connections
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Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the University of Cambridge.
Roger Barker is the Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the University of Cambridge and at Addenbrooke's Hospital. He trained at Oxford and London and has been in his current position since 2000, after completing an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship.
Roger combines basic research looking at novel therapies to treat chronic neurodegenerative disorders of the brain with clinically-based work aimed at better defining such disorders. He is the co-ordinator of the TRANSEURO project looking at fetal cell grafting in patients with early Parkinson's Disease and is part of the GFORCE PD initiative as well as Director of the ISSCR.
Visit website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?=barker
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