Prof. Tamir Ben-Hur
Division of Clinical Neurosciences, The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School Jerusalem
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My main research interests are in regenerative medicine to neurological disorders and neuroimmunology.
My lab was the first to describe the immune-modulatory and neuroprotective properties of neural stem cells, and their beneficial effects in animal models of multiple sclerosis. We also were first to show that transplanted neural stem cells induce the facilitation of myelin repair by the brain's own resident precursor cells.
We studied the bilateral interactions between the brain and neural stem cells, in various aspects that are important to both the understanding of basic biological issues and of clinical translation. For example:
My lab was the first to describe the immune-modulatory and neuroprotective properties of neural stem cells, and their beneficial effects in animal models of multiple sclerosis. We also were first to show that transplanted neural stem cells induce the facilitation of myelin repair by the brain's own resident precursor cells.
We studied the bilateral interactions between the brain and neural stem cells, in various aspects that are important to both the understanding of basic biological issues and of clinical translation. For example:
The attraction of neural stem cell migration by inflammatory processes and the specific role of microglia anf of chemokines in this process. The effect of local brain environment of the survival and function of transplanted stem cells.