Fred Gage
Professor, Academic
1950 –
Who is Fred Gage?
Fred "Rusty" Gage is Adler Professor in the Laboratory of Genetics at the Salk Institute, and has concentrated on the adult central nervous system and the unexpected plasticity and adaptability that remains throughout the life of all mammals. His work may lead to methods of replacing brain tissue lost to stroke or Alzheimer's disease and repairing spinal cords damaged by trauma. He was the President-elect of the ISSCR in 2012.
In 1998, Fred H. Gage and Peter Eriksson discovered and announced that the human brain produces new nerve cells in adulthood. Until then, it had been assumed that humans are born with all the brain cells they will ever have.
Gage’s lab showed that, contrary to years of dogma, human beings are capable of growing new nerve cells throughout life. Small populations of immature nerve cells are found in the adult mammalian brain, and Gage is working to understand how these cells can be induced to become mature nerve cells. His team is investigating how such cells can be transplanted back to the brain and spinal cord.
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- Born
- Aug 10, 1950
- Also known as
- Fred "Rusty" Gage
- Rusty Gage
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Florida
- Johns Hopkins University
- Lund University
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on July 23, 2013
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