Monday, December 12, 2011
11:30 - 12:30
Lecture Hall: Seminar room 5.30
Friedrich Miescher Institute for
Biomedical Research
Maulbeerstrasse 66, 4058 Basel

Kevin Eggan, Harvard University
Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, MA
"Stem cell and reprogramming approaches to the study of neurodegeneration"

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Kevin Eggan is Howard Hughes Medical Institute Early Career Scientist and Associate Professor at the
Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology of the Harvard University. His laboratory is pursuing two interlocking areas of investigation: the basic biology of stem cell programming and reprogramming, and the application of the resulting technologies to studies of the neuromuscular system and the diseases that affect it.
The in vitro models of neuromuscular diseases are established for both mechanistic studies and for the
discovery of novel small molecule therapeutics.