How to grow a brain
A groundbreaking lab-grown brain that behaves and thinks like a human brain can help scientists study neurodegenerative diseases like never before – and without the need for animal testing.
Join Dr Ann-Na Cho, a leading stem cell engineer whose next-generation stem cell and biomedical technology reliably mimics the human brain function, as she shares the latest breakthroughs in neuroscience.
Discover how these biofabricated brain models – referred to as brain organoids – are made, and learn how this cutting-edge development will help scientists better understand and treat life-changing brain conditions such as dementia and epilepsy.
Bio
Dr Ann-Na Cho is a stem cell engineer and lecturer in the School of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Sydney. She is an emerging leader in the new discipline of lab-grown human organs, organoids. Ann-Na is an inventor of seven international patents in the US, EU and Korea. Ann-Na’s research group is pioneering a sophisticated human brain grown in the lab using multidisciplinary research in stem cell biology, tissue engineering, gene engineering, bioelectronics and neuroscience, supported by the Sydney Horizon Fellowship and NHMRC Emerging Leadership Fellowship. Ann-Na's researcher group, hBMS, is using organoid technology to model various brain diseases, including dementia, ALS, epilepsy, Schizophrenia and viral infections for drug testing and therapeutics development.
Event
Thursday 3 April, 6:15 – 7:00 PM @Fortress Sydney, Central Park Mall, Level 2/28 Broadway, Chippendale NSW 2008
The other talk at this location is Your next doctor: human, AI, or both? at 7:30 – 8:15 PM
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