Neonatal Brain Development and Injury

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   Rapid medical and technological advances have significantly improved the survival of preterm babies and term neonates with brain injury of environmental (e.g. hypoxia) or genetic causes. 

​   The focus of the lab is to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying neurodevelopmental disorders associated with fetal and neonatal brain injury with the long-term goal of translating the lab’s findings into therapeutics.

 The research team uses region-specific human brain organoids differentiated from induced pluripotent stem  cells (hiPSC) and employs a multidisciplinary approach involving genetics, molecular and developmental neurobiology and multi-omics to ask questions about brain injury during development.