International Graduate School of Neuroscience

Axonal Regeneration

Monday, September 24, 2007

• Gena Raivich
• Medical School, University College, London, UK
• Molecular signals for central and peripheral regeneration

• Sally Meiners
• Department of Pharmacology, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, USA
• Engineering nanofibrillar surfaces for spinal cord repair

• Larry Benowitz
• Department of Neurosurgery, Children’s Hospital, Boston, USA
• Rewiring injured connections in the mature CNS: Novel growth factors, signaling pathways, and combinatorial approaches

• James Fawcett
• Head of Department, Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair, University of Cambridge, USA
• The CNS extracellular matrix; its role in axon regeneration and plasticity after injury