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YCR P53 Research Unit
Department of Biology
University of York
YORK YO10 5DD, UK.
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Robin Franklin, PhD
Director
MRC Cambridge Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine
Robin Franklin obtained his undergraduate degrees in Physiology and Veterinary Medicine and his PhD in Neuroscience. He has spent his entire career at the University of Cambridge, where he is currently Professor of Neuroscience. He has worked predominantly on the biology of myelin repair (remyelination) and investigating strategies by which this important regenerative process may be enhanced therapeutically, and has published over 185 papers and reviews on this topic.
Recently, his lab has focused on the possibility of enhancing remyelination through stimulating endogenous population of adult stem cells. Over the last few years he has been at the forefront of studying the cellular and molecular mechanisms of remyelination and describing the mechanisms by which adult stem cells are recruited to areas of demyelination and the extrinsic and intrinsic factors that regulate their differentiation into remyelinating oligodendrocytes.
He is currently Director of the UK MS Society Cambridge Centre for Myelin Repair, a consortium of Cambridge-based scientists and clinicians who are collectively working towards stem cell-based therapies for myelin repair and axon protection in MS, and Director of the Neural Stem Cell Programme at the MRC Cambridge Centre for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine.
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