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bjorn.vahsen@sjc.ox.ac.uk

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Björn Vahsen

StateExamMed MSc MD

DPhil Student

Biography

I studied medicine at the Georg-August-University Göttingen, including clinical rotations at King’s College London and the University of Zurich, graduating in 2018. In parallel, I obtained a research MD (summa cum laude) supervised by Prof Paul Lingor using cellular models to study the role of the autophagy-initiating kinase ULK1 in axonal degeneration and regeneration. I then completed the MSc in Neuroscience at the University of Oxford and started my DPhil at the Oxford Motor Neuron Disease Centre in 2019.

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I am studying the role of microglia in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis using induced pluripotent stem cell models. My project is performed in collaboration with Dr Sally Cowley at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology and funded by the Clarendon Fund, St John’s College, the MRC-DTP, and the NIHR.

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