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Michael Young, Ph.D.
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Michael Young, Ph.D., Associate Scientist at the Schepens Eye Research Institute, received his BS degree in behavioral neuroscience from the University of Pittsburgh in 1989. Young was awarded the Departmental Award, Biological Sciences in 1986. He then received his Ph.D. in anatomy/neuroscience from the University of Cambridge in 1995. Young trained in the laboratory of Prof. Raymond D. Lund. He was awarded the Chibnall Travel Fellowship, Clare College, in 1993. His thesis work involved the study of intracerebral neural and retinal transplantation, and how transplant- and host –derived information is integrated in the central nervous system. A postdoctoral fellowship at the Institute of Ophthalmology, University College, London in 1995 was followed by a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences. He was awarded a National Science Foundation/NATO ASI Travel Fellowship in 1997. In 1998, Young joined the Schepens Eye Research Institute as an Investigator in the Minda deGunzburg Research Center for Retinal Transplantation, and an Instructor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School. He was promoted to Assistant Scientist in 2000, and elected the Director of the Minda deGunzburg Research Center for Retinal Transplantation. In 2001, he was promoted to Assistant Professor in the Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, and received the Leslie. W. Nesmith Award from the Schepens International Society. His research involves the use of stem cells derived from the central nervous system, and neuroretinal transplantation in animal models of retinal degeneration. |
