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Dustin R. Wakeman, PhD

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, School of Medicine
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Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Psychiatry, School of Medicine

Biography

Dr. Wakeman’s research goals are directed at developing stem cell based therapeutics to treat neurodevelopmental and neurodegenerative disease. His career interests include disease modeling, neural transplantation, and morphological and molecular changes in neurodegenerative diseases and aging. Dr. Wakeman’s research is primarily focused on drug discovery, preclinical safety & pharmacology assessments, and clinical development using a rationale course of animal models to predict translational clinical outcome. He is utilizing pluripotent stem cells to develop new strategies to model and treat disorders of the central nervous system. The goal is to use patient derived iPSCs as an in vitro platform to model disease-specific phenotypes and develop new drugable targets, as well as in vivo to mimic human disease in the rodent and nonhuman primate brain. Dr. Wakeman has active research programs investigating Alzheimer’s disease, Huntington’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and several rare genetic neurological disorders.

Education & Training

PhD
University of California at San Diego, Biomedical Sciences (2010)
BS
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Biology (2003)

Research

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Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Alzheimer Disease; Central Nervous System Diseases; Huntington Disease; Lewy Body Disease; Parkinsonian Disorders; Stroke

Research at a Glance

Publications Timeline

A big-picture view of Dustin R. Wakeman's research output by year.

Publications

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2014

Academic Achievements & Community Involvement

  • honor

    Young Investigator Award

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