Geoffrey Raisman
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Professor Geoffrey (Geoff) Raisman FRS (28 June 1939 – 27 January 2017) was a British neuroscientist.[1][2]
Personal life
He was born in
Roundhay School and Pembroke College, Oxford.[5]
Career
He was chair of neural regeneration at
nerve cells where they had been severed, restoring the damaged spinal cord of the Polish paraplegic Darek Fidyka.[8]
External links
- http://www.nichollsfoundationhullander.org/professor-geoffrey-raisman/ Archived 26 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/01/25/one-small-step-annals-of-medicine-d-t-max
References
- ^ "RAISMAN, Prof. Geoffrey". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ Fawcett, James (2018). "Geoffrey Raisman. 28 June 1939—27 January 2017". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0001
- ISBN 9780954393809.
- S2CID 205941426.
- ^ "Meet the working-class lad from Leeds who has just changed the world - Mirror Online". Daily Mirror. 22 October 2014.
- ^ "Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant - BBC News". BBC News. 21 October 2014.
- ^ "British Jewish doctor helps paralysed man walk again | The Jewish Chronicle". Archived from the original on 22 October 2014.
- TheGuardian.com. 20 October 2014.
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