Human Embryonic Stem Cell - Derived Motor Neurons Are Sensitive to the Toxic Effect of Glial Cells

Received a B.S. in Microbiology from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Biology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2003, Dr. Kevin Eggan went on to become a postdoctoral fellow at the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research from 2002 to 2003 and a Junior Fellow in the Harvard Society of Fellows from 2003 before joining Harvard University’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology as an assistant professor in 2005 at the newly developed, state-of-the-art Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology. In 2006, he was named an assistant investigator of the Stowers Medical Institute.