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Björklund, Anders |
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Lund University |
| Primary Field
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Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience |
| Secondary Field
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Systems Neuroscience |
 Election Citation
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Björklund has led the field of neural transplantation both experimentally and intellectually for the last 25 years, providing the most convincing evidence that fetal neural tissue can be transplanted, survive and function in specific regions of the adult damaged brain, first in animal disease models and then in humans. |
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Research Interests
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Anders Björklund is Professor at the Wallenberg Neuroscience Center at the University of Lund. His research has been concerned with restorative and neuroprotective mechanisms in the CNS using cell replacement and gene transfer techniques. In the 1980ies his group pioneered studies of neural transplantation to the brain, and developed techniques for cell replacement in Parkinson's disease. Over the last 20 years the neural transplantation program at Lund University has been one of the leading cli |
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