Derek van der Kooy
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About
Derek van der Kooy is a University of Toronto professor and principal investigator in the Department of Molecular Genetics at the Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research. His lab focuses on neural development, stem cell biology, learning and memory, and the neurobiology of motivation, and the Donnelly Centre credits his group with discoveries including primitive neural stem cells and adult retinal and pancreatic stem cells. He is listed as FRSC on his University of Toronto faculty profile.
Areas of interest
stem cellsneuroscienceneural developmentregenerative medicineretinal regenerationpancreatic stem cellslearning and memoryneurobiology of motivationdiabetes researchblindness research