ProfessorLachlan Thompson

Professor Lachlan Thompson completed a PhD in Neuropharmacology at the University of Melbourne in 2002. His research program over the last 20 years has been dedicated to understanding the potential for replacement of neural circuitry in the damaged central nervous system, including through endogenous neurogenesis, but predominately through neural transplantation. Professor Thompson contributed some of the first studies to utilise cells expressing fluorescent reporters in order to characterise anatomical connectivity of neural grafts. He is an international board member for the Network of European CNS Transplantation and Regeneration (NECTAR), the American Society for Neural Transplantation and Repair (ASNTR) and is the inaugural co-president of the Asia-Pacific Association for Neural Repair (APANTR).