Biography

Treating injuries and diseases of the brain and spinal cord remains one of the greatest challenges in medicine, with current therapies being insufficient to promote recovery in most instances of damage to the brain. My work at Cambridge aims to identify new targets for biochemical and genetic therapies for regenerating functional connectivity of neurons at the injury site by focusing on the genetic basis of the interaction between neurons and astrocytes in the injured central nervous system. After Cambridge, I will return to the United States to pursue a joint MD/PhD and continue researching treatment modalities for central nervous system injury and disease. Eventually, I hope to work as a physician-scientist in a setting similar to the Brain Repair Centre at Cambridge, searching for and then implementing a “cure” for previously debilitating or fatal diseases and injuries of the brain and spinal cord.

Previous Education

Princeton University Neuroscience and Molecular Biology 2012

Links

https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-barson-701b5b19/?originalSubdomain=uk