Page 25 - Establishing the Institute for Brain and Neural Sciences

Prof. Oren Schuldiner studies the mechanisms by which the wiring of the nervous system is established and re ned during development, with signi cant implications for strategies to promote axon regeneration following injury.
Prof. Avraham Yaron is elucidating the operation of chemical cues that guide axons to their targets, as well as the mechanisms that govern the elimination—or pruning—of some of those axons during development, yielding insights that may improve our ability to repair damaged neurons in adults.
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