Patrik Brundin

Wallenberg Neuroscience Center

Lund University was founded in 1666; with eight faculties and several research centres and specialised schools, Lund University is the largest institution of research and higher education in Sweden. Lund University has about 39200 students and more than 5500 employees, being a modern centre of research and higher education that enjoys a leading position at regional, national as well as at international level. Currently, Lund University is participating in around 200 research projects within the education and research program of the European Union; 54 of these projects are co-ordinated from Lund.  Professor Patrik Brundin leads The Neuronal Survival Unit, which aims to develop new restorative and neuroprotective treatments for neurodegenerative diseases. The team develops clinical grade stem cell-based and neuroprotective approaches to this and other neurological conditions. Brundin has received numerous prizes and was identified by the Institute for Scientific Information in 2003 as one of the 0.5% most cited researchers in neuroscience during the last 20 years. He leads a Nordic Center of Excellence on Molecular Mechanisms of Neurodegeneration and a Strong Research Environment on neurodegeneration, plasticity and repair (a top-ten research environment selected by the Swedish Research Council) and has coordinated a Marie Curie Training Site.

Training and transfer of knowledge environment
Our group belongs to the Faculty of Medicine, which encompasses 2500 full-time students enrolled in 9 degree programs, as well as 950 graduate students and 1200 employees. As the largest faculty its annual income of was calculated to over 200 million € for 2006.

Patrik Brundin        Professor            PD neurobiology
Jia-Yi Li            Associate professor        Stem cell grafting
Vanessa Hall        Post doc            Bone marrow stem cells
Tord Hjalt        Post doc            hESC differentiation

Selected publications
1. Smith R, Klein P, Koc-Schmitz Y, Waldvogel HJ, Faull RL, Brundin P, Plomann M, Li JY. Loss of SNAP-25 and rabphilin 3a in sensory-motor cortex in Huntington’s disease. J Neurochem. 2007,103(1):115-23.
2. Christophersen NS, Brundin P. Large stem cell grafts could lead to erroneous interpretations of behavioral results? Nat Med. 2007 Feb;13(2):118.
3. Anisimov SV, Christophersen NS, Correia AS, Li JY, Brundin P. “NeuroStem Chip”: a novel highly specialized tool to study neural differentiation pathways in human stem cells. BMC Genomics. 2007;8:46.