Dr. Agnete Kirkeby is an Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen and a Principal Investigator at Lund University. The Kirkeby group studies the factors involved in human neural subtype specification in order to enable production of specific neurons for understanding and treating neurological diseases. They apply advanced human stem cells models to understand how hundreds of human neuronal subtypes are formed during embryo development.

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