Ronald DG McKay

Ronald Davies Graham McKay is a British molecular biologist and stem cell researcher at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda , Maryland .

Life

McKay earned a bachelor's degree in 1971 and a Ph.D. in 1974 with a thesis on the structure of chromosomes and the organization of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). at the University of Edinburgh . After a research stay at the Max Planck Institute for Biology (today the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics ) in Tübingen , he worked as a postdoctoral fellow with Edwin Southern at the MRC Mammalian Genome Unit in Edinburgh . He then conducted research in the department of Walter Bodmer in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford and with Joseph Sambrook at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory in Cold Spring Harbor , New York .

In 1984 McKay was appointed professor of human biology and experimental medicine at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge , Massachusetts , before becoming head of the molecular biology laboratory at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke , a facility of the National Institutes of Health , in Bethesda , Maryland , in 1993 . has been. Since 2003, McKay has served as the head of the Human Stem Cell Department at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda.

Act

McKay uses genomic and genetic methods to study the development and function of stem cells in the nervous system of mice and humans. His work is fundamental to understanding the proliferation and differentiation of these cells. McKay was able to show that stem cells can produce synaptically active neurons and applies this to clinical models of neurodegenerative diseases .

Awards (selection)

• 2002 Neuronal Plasticity Prize
• 2003 Max Delbrück Medal
• 2004 Ernst Schering Prize

Web links

• Ronald DG McKay, Ph.D., Senior Investigator at the National Institutes of Health (nih.gov); Retrieved June 28, 2011
• Curriculum vitae at the Schering Foundation (scheringstiftung.de); Retrieved June 28, 2011

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Neurosciences ( Memento from July 21, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) at the Fondation Ipsen (fondation-ipsen.org).
2. ↑ Dr. Ron McKay to Receive Max-Delbrück Medal in Berlin ( Memento from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) at the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (mdc-berlin.de).
3. ↑ Ernst Schering Prize 2004: Prof. Dr. Ronald DG McKay at the Schering Foundation (scheringstiftung.de); accessed on May 11, 2019.