Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

Professor
Neurological Surgery
+1 415 514-2347

Arturo Alvarez-Buylla, PhD studies the origin, migration and functional contribution of neural stem cells born in the adult brain. He has initiated studies exploring progenitor cell transplants for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease and epilepsy.

Publications

Fate plasticity of interneuron specification.

iScience

Mostajo-Radji MA, Leon WRM, Breevoort A, Gonzalez-Ferrer J, Schweiger HE, Lehrer J, Zhou L, Schmitz MT, Perez Y, Mukhtar T, Robbins A, Chu J, Andrews MG, Sullivan FN, Tejera D, Choy EC, Paredes MF, Teodorescu M, Kriegstein AR, Alvarez-Buylla A, Pollen AA

Human pallial MGE-type GABAergic interneuron cell therapy for chronic focal epilepsy.

Cell stem cell

Bershteyn M, Bröer S, Parekh M, Maury Y, Havlicek S, Kriks S, Fuentealba L, Lee S, Zhou R, Subramanyam G, Sezan M, Sevilla ES, Blankenberger W, Spatazza J, Zhou L, Nethercott H, Traver D, Hampel P, Kim H, Watson M, Salter N, Nesterova A, Au W, Kriegstein A, Alvarez-Buylla A, Rubenstein J, Banik G, Bulfone A, Priest C, Nicholas CR

Does Adult Neurogenesis Persist in the Human Hippocampus?

Cell stem cell

Paredes MF, Sorrells SF, Cebrian-Silla A, Sandoval K, Qi D, Kelley KW, James D, Mayer S, Chang J, Auguste KI, Chang EF, Gutierrez Martin AJ, Kriegstein AR, Mathern GW, Oldham MC, Huang EJ, Garcia-Verdugo JM, Yang Z, Alvarez-Buylla A