University of Wisconsin Doctor Honored for Brain Research
A University of Wisconsin doctor was honored recently for her contributions of research in neurodegenerative disorders.
Marina E. Emborg, MD, PhD, an associate professor of medical physics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison was recognized at the 23rd Annual Conference of the American Society of Neural Therapy and Repair (ASNTR), held April 28-30, 2016.
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ASNTR awarded The 2016 Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award for Brain Repair to Emborg in recognition of her significant research contributions to research in neurodegenerative disorders, particularly in Parkinson’s disease, in developing safe neuroprotective strategies to prevent, slow down or stop brain cell death using stem cells as model systems and cell-based strategies, according to a press release .
Dr. Emborg, who is the director of the Preclinical Parkinson’s Research Program at the Wisconsin National Primate Research Center, uses advanced neuroimaging techniques to investigate non-invasive techniques in preclinical research such as real-time intra-cerebral targeting and infusion monitoring for gene therapy procedures.
Her preclinical work includes creating animal models and experimental paradigms that better reflect clinical conditions and applying advance imaging techniques to for data collection and creating new clinical applications.
She received both her MD (1988) and her PhD (1993) in neurobiology from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. She has been at the University of Wisconsin-Madison since 2004.
“Dr. Emborg has made outstanding contributions using non-human primate models that have advanced cell and drug therapy approaches forward for Parkinson’s disease,” said Dr. Clive Svendsen, professor of medicine and biomedicine and director the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute.
The award is named for Bernard Sanberg, father of Dr. Paul Sanberg (University of South Florida), a co-founder of the ASNTR. After Bernard Sanberg died of a stroke in 1999, the award bearing his name was established and is presented by the ASNTR annually to an individual who has made outstanding research contributions in the field of neural therapy and repair. The award, first presented in 2000, is presented every year at ASNTR’s Annual Meeting.
Recent past winners of the Bernard Sanberg Memorial Award for Brain Repair include: John D. Elsworth, PhD, Yale School of Medicine, Douglas Kondziolka, MD, NYU Langone Medical Center; Mike Modo, PhD, University of Pittsburgh; Timothy Collier, PhD, Michigan State University; Donald Eugene Redmond, MD, Yale University; Shinn-Zong Lin, MD, PhD, China Medical University; Howard J. Federoff, MD, PhD, Georgetown University.
