Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience, and Professor of Comparative Medicine, of Genetics and of Psychiatry
Nenad Sestan, M.D., Ph.D., is the Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience, Professor of Comparative Medicine, of Genetics and of Psychiatry, and a member of the Kavli Institute for Neuroscience at the Yale School of Medicine. He obtained his M.D. from the University of Zagreb and his Ph.D. in neurobiology from Yale University. Dr. Sestan’s laboratory investigates how neural circuits form within the developing cerebral cortex, the outside part of the mammalian brain that processes our senses, commands motor activity, and helps us perform higher-order cognitive functions like language. He also studies how neural circuits were modified during human evolution and may become compromised in neuropsychiatric disorders. Recently, his laboratory developed a perfusion system and synthetic cytoprotective acellular perfusate, they named BrainEx, that can restore circulation and cellular functions in the porcine brain after prolonged circulatory arrest and anoxia. This finding also indicates that cell death in the mammalian brain takes place over a longer period of time than previously thought, and that brain cells are considerably more robust to ischemic injury than previously assumed.
Dr. Sestan is the recipient of several international honors and awards, including memberships in the National Academy of Medicine, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, and Connecticut Academy of Science and Engineering, Nature’s 10 who mattered in science, Constance Lieber Prize, Krieg Cortical Discoverer Prize, NARSAD Distinguished Investigator, McDonnell Scholar, and Krieg Cortical Scholar. He has been a member of the BrainSpan, BRAIN Initiative Cell Census Network, and PsychENCODE consortia.
Steps to claim CME credits for BWH Neurology Grand Rounds 2020-2021:
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Upcoming Schedule:
10/27/21 - Joachim Herz
11/3/21 - Jennifer Frontera
11/10/21 - Irene Cortese
11/17/21 - Eion Flanagan
11/24/21 - Thanksgiving Break
