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Research Update in
Neuroscience for Neurosurgeons


Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods Hole, Massachusetts

October 17 - 24, 2009
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RUNN Course Speakers 2009
Reading Lists

Keynote Speaker
     Luis Parada, "Gliomas in Mice"

  • Issam Awad, "Translational and Integrational Research: Cavernous Angioma as a Paradigm"
  • Martin Bednar , "Academic-Pharma Collaborations: A Critical Alliance and Neurorestoration: The Next Horizon"
  • Larry Benowitz, "Axonal Guidance and Regerneration"
  • Edward Benzel, "Science, Clinical Practice, and the Quest of Academic Excellence"
  • Kerry Bernstein, "On the Evolution of an Electronic Species"
  • Richard Born, "Modularity and Integration in the Primate Visual Cortex"
  • Henry Brem , "Brain Tumor Therapy"
  • Mark Burns, "Acute CNS Injury and Chronic Neurodegenerative Disease: common pathways and therapeutic targets"
  • Nino Chiocca, "Translational therapeutics for brain tumors: for the lab to the clinic and back."
  • E. Sander Connolly , "Neuroinflammation/Adhesion Molecules"
  • Patricia A. D'Amore, "Angiogenesis and Neoplasia"
  • Robert Dempsey, "Research and Balance in an Academic Neurosurgery Career. Getting Started, How do I Write a Grant? "
  • Peter Dirks, "Probing the Relationship Between Stem Cells and Brain Cancer"
  • V. Reggie Edgerton, "Activity Dependent Mechanisms that Enhance Sensorimotor Function Following Spinal Cord Injury"
  • Michael Fehling, "Repair and regeneration of the injured spinal cord: from molecule
    to man "
  • Robert Friedlander, "Mechanisms of Cell Death in Neurologic Diseases"
  • Murat Gunel, "Molecular Genetics and Biology of Intracranial Aneurysms and Cavernous Malformationse"
  • Michael Haglund, "Optical Imaging of Epileptiform Activity: From Brain Slices to the Operating Room"
  • Robert Harbaugh, " Biostatistics and Clinical Trial Design"
  • Leigh R. Hochberg, "Intracortically-based Brain-Computer Interfaces"
  • Andres Lozano, "Adjusting the activity in Human Brain circuits "
  • Jeff Lichtman, "Connectomics "
  • Lori Setton, "Tissue and Cellular Engineering Approaches to Regeneration and Repair of the Intervertebral Disc"-
  • Jerry Silver, "Functional Regeneration Beyond the Glial Scar "
  • Marc Simard, "The SUR1-regulated NCCa-ATP channel - a new player in CNS ischemia and trauma"
  • David Sinclair, "Genes and Small Molecules that Extend Lifespan"

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