Associate Professor - Flinders University, College of Medicine and Public Health
Group Leader - SAHMRI (South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute), Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics
Associate Professor Cedric Bardy is neurobiologist with in-depth expertise in human neural stem cell models, electrophysiology and single cell transcriptomics. His research efforts are focused on advancing new stem cell biotechnologies and strategies to understand the effect of neurological disorders on brain cells.
At the end of 2016, he was recruited to Australia by SAHMRI and Flinders University, where he established a new research program aiming to improve pre-clinical translation in neurology. In January 2021, he was promoted to Associate Professor by Flinders University. He currently leads the Laboratory for Human Neurophysiology and Genetics located at SAHMRI.
Cedric has contributed to pioneering the development of iPSC models to study brain disorders. In particular, he is the inventor of BrainPhys, a neuronal medium broadly used to culture and mature human neurons in vitro, and he co-authored the first iPSC paper of Alzheimer’s published in Nature.
More information on the Bardy Lab can be found here
Brain Cancer Research Fellow
Flinders Health and Medical Research Institute (FHMRI)
Dr Brett Stringer is the Brain Cancer Research Fellow at Flinders University. He has co-authored more than 50 original research reports, mostly on brain cancer. His achievements include the co-establishment of a brain tumour biobank and a widely shared, extensively characterised, collection of brain cancer cell lines (Q-Cell), in addition to work that helped lead to the clinical trial of a new therapy (Ifabotuzumab) for glioblastoma. The goal of his current research is to identify novel pharmacologically amenable ways to treat malignant brain tumours by identifying dependencies created by the tumour microenvironment as well as by the genetic events that lead to the development of brain tumours. He contributes to research projects in the laboratories of Assoc Prof Simon Conn and Assoc Prof Cedric Bardy, at Flinders University and the South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI), respectively.
The Full team can be found here
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