Dong Sun
Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
Biography
Dong Sun received a degree of Bachelor of Medicine from Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China, in 1986 and a M.Sc. in Radiology from West China Medical University, Chengdu, China in 1989. Following a residency training in Radiology, Dr. Sun became an attending Radiologist for a number of years in China before pursuing Ph.D. training in Experimental Neuropathology at School of Medicine, Southampton University, United Kingdom in 1995. After completing Ph.D. in 1999, Dr. Sun did postdoctoral trainings, first in the Department of Pharmacology at Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Maryland, and then in the Department of Neurosurgery at Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University (MCV/VCU), Virginia, before becoming an Assistant Professor in 2004 and then Associate Professor in 2010 in MCV/VCU. Dr. Sun’s research interest is to investigate strategies that can facilitate brain repair and regeneration following traumatic brain injury (TBI) and aging. Using varying type of rodent TBI models as well as Alzheimer’s transgenic model, her studies examine the association of TBI, aging, neuroinflammation with neurogenesis and cognitive function. Her search is well supported by NIH and other foundation grants.
Abstract
Abstract : The potential of stem cell therapy for brain repair and regeneration following Neurotrauma