Malin Parmar

Malin Parmar is a professor in cellular neuroscience at Lund University in Sweden, a New York Stem Cell Foundation – Robertson investigator and a Swedish Research Council Distinguished Professor. Together with her lab she has shown in a series of high-profile publications how human fibroblasts can be converted into neurons, how glial cells can be reprogrammed into neurons in vivo, and how functional dopamine neurons can be generated from human embryonic stem cells for the purpose of brain repair. In recent years, she has implemented novel technologies for circuitry analysis and integration as well as transcriptional analysis into these studies. Her research has a strong translational focus, she leads the European effort STEM-PD, designed to bring stem cell-derived dopamine neurons to clinical trials.