Neurosurgery Department, UF College of Medicine
Dennis Steindler, PhD
Special Interests:
Neural Stem Cells,
Debilitating Neurological Deseases,
Brain Repair,
Brain Tumors
Dr. Steindler received his BA degree with honors in Zoology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, his doctorate in Anatomy and Neurosciences from the University of California, San Francisco.
After postdoctoral studies at the Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Germany, Dr. Steindler began his studies of brain development, injury and cancer as an Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Michigan State University, and he later went on to join the faculty of the College of Medicine at the University of Tennessee, Memphis.
He served as the Executive Director of the McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida from 2004 until 2010, and currently is the Joseph J. Bagnor/Shands Professor of Medical Research in the Department of Neurological Surgery of the University of Florida College of Medicine.
He serves on the grants review team of the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). He also serves on the scientific advisory board for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research.
Besides being a developmental neurobiologist, and having taught medical school neuroscience, Dr. Steindler has been studying the growth and transplantation of normal brain and cancerous stem cells for over 25 years.
He is also responsible for reviewing manuscripts and grants for a variety of journals and funding agencies, including formerly chairing a brain repair and stem cell-related review panel at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke in the National Institutes of Health, and he has retained positions on the editorial boards of the journals: The Journal of Neuroscience, GLIA, Experimental Neurology, Brain Research, and the Journal of Parkinson’s Disease. His papers in the international journals of medicine and science, including The Lancet, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, set forth plans for the use of stem cells and regenerative medicine for a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson’s Disease, stroke and brain cancer.
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