The Henry G. Friesen International Prize in Health Research » January 14, 2013 – “Building Brains”

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January 14, 2013 – “Building Brains”

Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne, 2012 Friesen Prizewinner
Listen to Paul Kennedy’s Interview on CBC Radio One “Ideas”.

Recent recipient of the Friesen Prize in Health Science Research, Dr. Marc Tessier-Lavigne identified important mechanisms for the formation of the normal human brain, which ultimately opened new frontiers in the world of neuro-degeneration, and spinal chord injuries. He talks with Paul Kennedy.