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Benedikt Berninger
Benedikt Berninger

Professor Benedikt Berninger Dr. rer. nat.

Professor of Developmental Neurobiology

Research interests

  • Neuroscience

Biography

I lead my own lab group within the Centre for Developmental Neurobiology and supervise several PhD and MSc students. My lab’s research primarily focuses on how to initiate neurogenesis in the mammalian brain, as typically most adult mammals are incapable of regenerating neurons after embryonic development. We do this by converting support cells into induced neurons, using in vitro and in vivo virus-based models. We also study neural stem cell models, to further inform our research in integrating newly generated neurons within existing networks. We hope that our research will ultimately pave the way for new strategies for regenerating the diseased brain in humans. Our work is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Please see my  Research Staff Profile for more detail.

Find out more about my research:

Key Collaborators:

  • Professor Guillermina Lopez-Bendito, Universidad Miguel Hernández
  • Dr Francois Guillemot, The Francis Crick Institute
  • Dr Nicholas Luscombe, The Francis Crick Institute
  • Professor Oscar Marin, King's College London

Research

From Dev Biology to Regen Medicine-hero
From Developmental Biology to Regenerative Medicine

Understanding organ development and tissue regeneration provides a framework for elucidating disease mechanisms as well as for developing new therapeutics.

Crick
The Francis Crick Institute

King’s is delighted to be a founding academic partner alongside UCL and Imperial College in the Francis Crick Institute, joining the multidisciplinary research expertise from all the Partners together to deliver world-leading biomedical research.

News

Key protein responsible for controlling production of new neurons for memory and learning in the adult brain identified

Scientists reported the crucial role of transcriptional co-activator Yap1 in regulating adult hippocampal neurogenesis and its potential involvement in brain...

Yap1 cKO GFAP-Mcm2-GFP

Reprogramming glial cells into neurons reduces the rate of epileptic seizures in mice

A new study has found that cellular reprogramming can help to reduce reduce epileptic seizures in mice.

CellStemCell

IoPPN researcher wins £1.8m ERC grant to study engineered neurogenesis for brain repair

King’s academic, Professor Benedikt Berninger, has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).

Graphic of the side of a head with the brain's pathways in different colours

Research

From Dev Biology to Regen Medicine-hero
From Developmental Biology to Regenerative Medicine

Understanding organ development and tissue regeneration provides a framework for elucidating disease mechanisms as well as for developing new therapeutics.

Crick
The Francis Crick Institute

King’s is delighted to be a founding academic partner alongside UCL and Imperial College in the Francis Crick Institute, joining the multidisciplinary research expertise from all the Partners together to deliver world-leading biomedical research.

News

Key protein responsible for controlling production of new neurons for memory and learning in the adult brain identified

Scientists reported the crucial role of transcriptional co-activator Yap1 in regulating adult hippocampal neurogenesis and its potential involvement in brain...

Yap1 cKO GFAP-Mcm2-GFP

Reprogramming glial cells into neurons reduces the rate of epileptic seizures in mice

A new study has found that cellular reprogramming can help to reduce reduce epileptic seizures in mice.

CellStemCell

IoPPN researcher wins £1.8m ERC grant to study engineered neurogenesis for brain repair

King’s academic, Professor Benedikt Berninger, has been awarded a prestigious Advanced Grant by the European Research Council (ERC).

Graphic of the side of a head with the brain's pathways in different colours