Tasneem Zahir, Ph.D.
tasneem.zahir@utoronto.ca
Project Bio
"Engineering Healing: Using Neural Stem Cells for Spinal Cord Injury Repair"
Bioengineering CNS derived adult stem cell neurosphere tubes for implantation into the injured spinal cord and screening of exogenous factors for their differentiation potential, for incorporation into the biodegradable, drug delivery, neurosphere tubes. These
tissue-engineered tubes will be implanted in vivo, to determine their ability to promote axonal regeneration.
Employment and Education
2005 - present
PDF with Dr. Molly Shoichet
Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular & Biomolecular Research (CCBR) /
Department of Chemical Engineering & Applied Chemistry, University of Toronto
2003 - 2004
Postdoctoral Sabbatical with Dr. Li-An Yeh
Laboratory for Drug Discovery in Neurodegeneration (LDDN),
Harvard Centre for Neurodegeneration & Repair (HCNR), Boston
2002 - 2004
PDF with Dr. Michael Young
Schepens Eye Research Institute,
Harvard Medical School
1997 - 2001
Ph.D. in Molecular Biology and Gene Therapy
University of Cambridge, Department of Clinical Veterinary Medicine, Cambridge, UK
Title: Selective Packaging of Herpes Virus Amplicons for Rentinal Gene Therapy
1994 - 1997
B.Sc. in Human Genetics
University College London (UCL), London, UK
