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SUMMARY:Can we repair the Parkinsonian brain? - Professor Roger Barker\, C
 linical Neurosciences
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DTEND:20210504T160000Z
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CONTACT:Dr Dervila Glynn
DESCRIPTION:Theme: *Lifelong Brain Development*\n\nIn this talk i will dis
 cuss history and current status of using growth factor and cell based ther
 apies to repair the brain in patients with Parkinson's Disease (PD). This 
 will include recent trials with GDNF and our own work with fetal dopamine 
 cell therapies as well as our planned trial\nusing stem cell derived dopam
 ine neurons.\n\nRoger Barker is the Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at\
 nthe University of Cambridge and Consultant Neurologist at the Addenbrooke
 's Hospital Cambridge. He is a PI in the MRC-Wellcome Trust Stem Cell Inst
 itute in Cambridge and Director of the MRC funded UKRMP Stem and Engineere
 d cell hub. His research seeks to better define the clinical\nheterogeneit
 y of two common neurodegenerative disorders of the CNS- namely Parkinson's
  (PD) and Huntington's disease (HD).\n\nRegister in advance for this meeti
 ng:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZUldemoqTkrGtYXt8zqQw4eG8Ny
 qLL5tbAi \n\nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email con
 taining information about joining the meeting.
LOCATION:Register on Zoom - link in abstract
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