BioLight seminar – Defining mechanisms of blood-brain barrier dysfunction in neurodegenerative diseases using advanced organ-on-a-chip model
The seminar will be on Tuesday 27th May in the BMS seminar room at 1pm.
Dr Mootaz Salman is a Group Leader in Cellular Neuroscience and MRC Career Development Fellow. He is also a Research Fellow at Wolfson College in Oxford.
His group investigates mechanisms of blood-brain barrier (dys)function in neurodegenerative diseases and brain injuries, using patient-derived stem cells. They design and build innovative dynamic 3D multicellular in vitro models including organ-on-a-chip and organoids to accurately recapitulate the brain and blood-brain barrier function under mechanobiological stimuli, neuroinflammation and other neurodegenerative-relevant conditions.
Dr Salman was awarded multiple accolades including the International Society of Neurochemistry (ISN) Young Neuroscientist Lectureship Award in 2022, the Society for Experimental Biology (SEB) 2024 President’s Medal for the Cell Biology Section, Alzheimer’s Research UK (ARUK) David Hague Early Career Investigator of the Year in 2024, and the Inaugural ALBA-Roche Research Prize for Excellence in Neuroscience 2024.
Host: Dr Juan Varela
Sponsor: Alzheimer’s Research UK Scottish Network.
More information about the speaker can be found in: https://www.dpag.ox.ac.uk/research/salman-group