These are the PhD students currently working on the AXREGEN programme, and a brief account of who they are and what they are doing.

Ilary Allodi (University  Autonoma of Barcelona) is from Italy, and works on improving recovery from nerve injury in the limbs. She did her undergraduate degree in Turin

Philipp Follert (Developmental Biology Institute of Marseilles) was born in Germany, and did his undergraduate degree at Rheinische Friedrich Wilhelms Universität, Bonn.  He is studying a region of the brain which goes on making new nerve cells even into adult life.

Oksana Forostyak (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Charles University,  Prague) is Ukrainian, and did her medical degree  at I.Ya.Horbachevsky Ternopil State Medical University, Ukraine.  She is working on the role of stem cells in repairing degeneration in the brain.

Oktar Guloglu (Wallenberg Neuroscience Center, Lund University Sweden) is from Turkey  and did his Masters degree at Istanbul University.  He is studying  the use of stem cells as a treatment for brain damage.

Nabila Haji ( Laboratory of Neuroplasticity, Rome) is from Morocco and graduated from University Cadi Ayyad of Marrakesh. She is working on ways to improve recovery in the cerebellum, a part of the brain concerned with balance and skilled movements.

Tristan Heintz (University of Cambridge) is French, and educated at University Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg.  He is working on factors that encourage repair and regeneration in the cerebellum.

Armelle Klopstein (University  Autonoma of Barcelona) is from France,  and was educated at Pierre et Marie Curie University – Paris VI.  She works on the mechanisms of damage and recovery to the spinal cord.

Magdalena Kulijewicz-Nawrot (Institute of Experimental Medicine, Czech Republic) is Polish, and did her degree at the Jagiellonian University, Krakow.   She is investigating the role of stem cells in Alzheimer’s disease.

Zuzanna Kurowska (Neuronal Survival Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Lund University, Sweden ) is from Poland, and did her degree at the Warsaw University of Life Sciences.   She is trying to improve the use of stem cell grafts in  the treatment of disorders such as Parkinson’s disease.

Vivien Labat-Gest (Department of Neuroscience, Turin) is French, and studied at the University of Bordeaux. He is investigating the role of glial cells for improving recovery after acute damage.

Iben Lundgaard (University of Cambridge) is Danish, and was educated at the  University of Aarhus. She works on the role of cells that sheath and support nerve cells (glia) in the brain.
Elizabeth Moloney (Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience) is from Ireland, and did her undergraduate and Masters degrees at Trinity College, Dublin.  She is working on understanding the interaction between nerves and muscles in relation to motor neuron diseases.

Vasil Mecollari (Netherlands Institute  for Neuroscience) was born in Albania and educated at  University of Athens, Greece. He is studying ways to repair the damage spinal cord.

Ermira Pajaj (Section of Neuroscience , Turin University) was born in Albania, and did her medical degree at University of Tirana.  She is studying special chemicals that seem to encourage re-growth of nerve fibres after injury to the brain.

André Schmandke (Brain Research Institute, Zurich) was born in Germany, and did his degree at Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.   He is working on chemicals that encourage nerve fibres to grow again after injury.

Antonio Schmandke (Brain Research Institute, Zurich) was born in Germany, and did his degree at Eberhard-Karls Universität Tübingen.   He is also working on chemicals that encourage nerve fibres to grow again after injury.

Zsuzsanna Szepesi (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw) is from Hungary, and did her degree at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest.  She is working on the reasons why epileptic seizures can damage the brain.

Marine Yeghiazaryan (Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw) is Armenian, and received her degree from Yerevan State University, Armenia.  She is studying the ways that nerves and muscles interact, which is essential for normal movement.