CMRC Children's Memorial Research Center
NRC

The Chicago Neural Repair Club

The next Neural Repair Club is:

Monday, October 22, 2007

“Repairing the Damaged Brain with Stem Cells: Where Are We Now?”

Clive Svendsen, PhD
Professor
Departments of Anatomy and Neurology
The Waisman Center
University of Wisconsin at Madison

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Monday, December 3, 2007


“Glia Proinflammatory Cytokine Up-Regulation"

Linda J. Van Eldik, PhD
Co-Director
Center for Drug Discovery and Chemical Biology
Associate Director
Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center
Professor
Dept Cell & Molecular Biology
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine

Monday, February 18, 2008

“Alpha-Synuclein and DJ-1: Two Proteins with Opposite Functions in Parkinson's Disease”
 
Jean-Christophe Rochet, PhD
Assistant Professor
Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology
Purdue University

Monday, March 17, 2008

“Protein Conformational Regulation After Phosphorylation, From the Atomic Structure to Cancer and Alzheimer's Disease”
 
Kun Ping Lu, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Cancer Biology Program
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Harvard Medical School  

Monday, April 14, 2008

“Insights Into Autotransplantation: The Discovery of Specific Induction Systems in Bone Marrow Stromal Cells”

Mari Dezawa, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology
Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan

Monday, May 19, 2008

“Striatal Plasticity in Parkinson's Disease Models”

D. James Surmeier, PhD
Nathan Smith Davis Professor and Chair
Department of Physiology
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine