Ricardo Dolmetsch moved from Colombia to the United States at age 17 to attend university. He received his BSc from Brown University, his PhD in Neuroscience from Stanford University and he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard. Dolmetsch is a faculty member in the Department of Neurobiology at Stanford University. He is also the Global Head of Neuroscience at the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research where he is using new technologies to develop treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases.
Talks with this Speaker
Neurodevelopmental disease: Drug Discovery in Neuroscience
Ricardo Dolmetsch tells us how neurons made from the stem cells of children with neurodevelopmental diseases can be used to make medicines to treat incurable diseases. (Talk recorded in July 2016)
Audience:
- Researcher
- Educators of H. School / Intro Undergrad
- Educators of Adv. Undergrad / Grad
Duration: 44:32
