Oscar Marín is Professor of Neurobiology, Director of Operations, Centre for Developmental Neurobiology and Director of the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience at King's College London.

His lab investigates the development of the cerebral cortex in health and disease and our research largely focuses on cortical interneurons. The cerebral cortex is one of the most complex neuronal systems in the brain and much of this complexity emerges from interaction of two distinct neuronal types, glutamatergic projection neurons and GABAergic interneurons.

His lab believes that research may contribute to understanding the aetiology of some of the most devastating psychiatric disorders, such as autism or schizophrenia.

Oscar also leads the Department of Developmental Neurobiology and the MRC Centre for Neurodevelopmental Disorders, which manages the MRC PhD Fellowship Programme.

He regularly engages with the community outside science through media interviews and offering input to science policy and public awareness forums.

Please see his Research Staff Profile for more detail.

Oscar Marín's research

• CDN - Oscar Marín
• Marín Lab

Key collaborators

• Beatriz Rico, King’s College London
• Nenad Sestan, Yale University
• Declan Murphy, King’s College London
• Philip McGuire, King’s College London

Key publications

• Lim et al., 2018. Optimization of interneuron function by direct coupling of cell migration and axonal targeting programs. Nature Neuroscience.
• Wong et al., 2018. Pyramidal cell regulation of interneuron survival sculpts cortical networks. Nature.
• Mi et al., 2018.Early emergence of cortical interneuron diversity in the mouse embryo. Science.