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Dennis A. Steindler, PhD - Scientific Advisory Board
Professor of Medical Research
Department of Neuroscience and Neurosurgery
McKnight Brain Institute
Gainesville, Florida

Dr. Steindler received his doctorate in Anatomy and Neurobiology 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 and injury as an Assistant Professor of Anatomy at Michigan State University. He is currently the Executive Director of the McKnight Brain Institute of the University of Florida, and the Joseph J. Bagnor/Shands Professor of Medical Research and a member of the Program in Adult Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine of the University of Florida College of Medicine. Besides directing a large developmental neurobiology group, and teaching medical school neuroscience, Dr. Steindler has been studying the growth and transplantation of brain and stem cells for over 25 years. He is also responsible for reviewing manuscripts and grants for a variety of journals and funding agencies, including the chairing of 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 retains a position of the editorial boards of the journals The Journal of Neuroscience, GLIA, Experimental Neurology, The Journal of Neurocytology, Gene Expression, and Developmental Brain Research. His recent papers in the international journals of medicine and science, 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 diseases, including Parkinson's Disease, and cancer.