Gerson Chadi
University of Sao Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil
Biography
Professor Gerson Chadi, MD. PHD., is Full Professor at the Department of Neurology of the University of Sao Paulo Medical School (USP), Brazil, since 1998. He specialized in Neurodegenerative Diseases and Advanced Research on Regeneration of Central Nervous System (CNS) at Karolinska Institute, Sweden (1991-1994), and also at the Clarke Inst of Psychiatry of Univ of Toronto and at the Montreal Neurological Inst of the McGill Univ (1999). He introduced in Brazil the concepts and research methods in the CNS Regeneration (1994) and was one of the signatories of the Beijing Letter which created the Neurorestauratology Discipline in the field of Neurology. He heads the Translational Neurology Unit, the Translational Neurology Laboratory and the Neuroregeneration Research Center at Dep of Neurology of USP. He coordinates the Neurological Genomic Project and the Cell Therapy Project of his Medical School. He introduced the first Brazilian Systematic Translational Research on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, bench to bed, side 2010), being responsible for various clinical and laboratory projects on ALS research. He published more than 100 scientific peer reviewed papers in International Scientific Journals, graduated over than 60 Master, PhD and post doctoral students.
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