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Doctor David Cram BSc(Hons), PhD Monash
Group Leader
Regenerative Neuroscience and Development Laboratory
Dr David Cram has a major research interest in the development of new technologies for the diagnosis of genetic diseases in human embryos and the characterization disease-specific and patient-specific stem cells with neurological disorders. As Director of Genetic Services at Monash IVF for 10 years, he established pre-implantation genetic diagnosis for single gene disorders including Huntington's Disease at Monash IVF. He is currently the Australian Board Member of the Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis International Society and is actively involved in educating genetic support groups and the community on the controversial practice of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and emerging system cell technologies for treatment of neurological disorders. In 2007, he was invited by the journal Nature to validate the first report of primate stem cells derived by somatic nuclear transfer, leading to a publication in Nature. More recently, he has been instrumental in the characterization of new stem cell models of Huntington's Disease with the ultimate aim of developing effective therapeutics for patients. He has supervised 6 PhD students to completion and is the author of over 70 peer-reviewed publications.
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