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Magdalena Götz
German neuroscientist · Germany · On the map · Scientists · Born 1962 · age 64
Magdalena Götz is a German neuroscientist. She is noted for her study of glial cells and holds a chair at LMU Munich's Department of Physiology. She is involved in the field of adult neurogenesis. Götz discovered that glial cells are neural stem cells in the developing mammalian brain.
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Current investigations study the mechanisms involved in determining how adult neural stem cells are specified. Götz current work focuses on refining ways to reprogram glial cells into neurons in organisms with traumatic brain injury. The German Stem Cell Network published an interview with Götz in 2015 explaining her research field.
