Biography:Patrik Brundin

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Patrik Brundin (born December 26, 1961 in Malmö, Sweden) is director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Science and Jay Van Andel Endowed Chair at Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan and a leading Parkinson's disease researcher.[1][2] He was part of the team that conducted the first cell transplant surgeries designed to restore lost dopamine-producing cells in Parkinson's disease, documented by J. William Langston in the book The Case of the Frozen Addicts.[3] Brundin has authored or co-authored some 350 peer-reviewed articles in the field of neurology, most of which are on Parkinson's disease and related disorders. He was previously Professor of Neuroscience at Lund University in Sweden.[4] He is a member of the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre scientific advisory board.[5]

He received his MD and PhD at Lunds University in 1992.

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