Brain Reconstruction: The Next Breakthrough or Impossible

Professor Jack Price

Professor of Developmental Neurobiology and Head of the Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour, Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London.
Professor Price studied at University College London and MIT, then worked at the MRC’s National Institute for Medical Research. He was Director of Molecular Neuroscience at SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, until joining the Institute in 1998. He became Director of the newly-former Centre for the Cellular Basis of Behaviour in 2006. His academic interests are neural stem cells, brain repair, and the psychiatric disorders. In addition to his Institute post, he is currently Consultant and Director of Cell Biology for ReNeuron Ltd., a UK Biotech company developing stem cells for therapeutic and drug discovery applications.