Clare Parish
Co-PI (Core Leadership)
Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health
Clare is a Professor at the Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, The University of Melbourne. As a graduate student she studied compensatory mechanisms during PD progression and since then has focused her research on understanding and modelling neural development using stem cells. These stem cells have provided a valuable tool for her to improve the safety and efficacy of neural transplants, as more recently model and understand the disease.
Recent ASAP Preprints & Published Papers
Transgenic A53T mice have astrocytic a-synuclein aggregates in dopamine and striatal regions
Generation of the iPSC line FINi002-A from a male Parkinson's disease patient carrying compound heterozygous mutations in the PRKN gene