Freda Miller
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Toronto
Election Year
2005
Academy
Academy of Science
Discipline
Medical Sciences
Department
Program of Developmental Biology
Keywords
Neurobiology, development, stem cells, cell death, growth factors
LONG CITATION
Professor Freda Miller is an internationally recognized neuroscientist and a world leader in the fields of neural cell death and stem cells. Her discoveries include identification of pivotal cell death proteins in developing neurons, association of these proteins with death in the injured adult nervous system, and discovery of a multipotent stem cell from adult skin as an accessible source of human cells to repair the damaged nervous system. The author of 96 publications, Professor Miller is President of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience, and is the first Canadian scientist to be elected Councillor of the American Society for Neuroscience.
SHORT CITATION
Professor Freda Miller is an internationally recognized neuroscientist and a world leader in the fields of neural cell death and stem cells. She has identified proteins that are involved in the death of developing and injured neurons. Dr. Miller has also identified a source of stem cells in adult skin that may be used to repair the damaged nervous system.
Professor Freda Miller is an internationally recognized neuroscientist and a world leader in the fields of neural cell death and stem cells. Her discoveries include identification of pivotal cell death proteins in developing neurons, association of these proteins with death in the injured adult nervous system, and discovery of a multipotent stem cell from adult skin as an accessible source of human cells to repair the damaged nervous system. The author of 96 publications, Professor Miller is President of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience, and is the first Canadian scientist to be elected Councillor of the American Society for Neuroscience.
SHORT CITATION
Professor Freda Miller is an internationally recognized neuroscientist and a world leader in the fields of neural cell death and stem cells. She has identified proteins that are involved in the death of developing and injured neurons. Dr. Miller has also identified a source of stem cells in adult skin that may be used to repair the damaged nervous system.
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