Research projects

Experimental Research

• Transplantation of stem/progenitor cells to the CNS after injury
• The immune system´s impact on tribal/progenitor cells.
• Characterization of adult human neural stem/progenitor cells
• Characterization of stem/progenitor cells from the filum terminale
• Repair of damaged spinal cord with peripheral nervgraft and FGF

Clinical Research

The back section

• Repair of damaged spinal cord with peripheral nervgraft and FGF

The Functional Section

• Neuropathic pain - Physiology
• Neural modulation for neuropathic pain
• NGF´s role in Alzheimer´s disease

The Trauma Section

• Gene expression and traumatic brain injury (TBI)
• Epigenitics and TBI

Vascular Section

• Long-term follow-up and quality of life parameters after subarachnoid hemorrhage
• Long-term follow-up after treatment of aneurysms of the brain
• Genetic analysis and monitoring of patients with AVM in the brain

Brain Tumors

• Follow-up of malignant brain tumors
• Follow-up of benign brain tumors
• Monitoring of tumors treated with gamma knife

Pediatric Neurosurgery

• Characterization of stem/progenitor cells from the filum terminale