Mr Chin Lik Tan

University position

PhD student
Supervised by James Fawcett

Departments

Department of Clinical Neurosciences

Institutes

Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair

Research Theme

Clinical and Veterinary Neuroscience

The Cambridge Neuroscience Community

Interests

Nerve regeneration - I'm studying the transport of mRNA translational machinery into axons, and the process of local protein synthesis in axons and growth cones, to understand their roles in nerve regeneration post-injury.

Research Focus

Keywords

axon

regeneration

translation

transport

Clinical conditions

Spinal cord injury

Equipment

Cell culture

Fluorescence microscopy

Immunohistochemistry

Microscopy

Collaborators

No collaborators listed