Nenad Sestan

Nenad Šestan (born 1970 in Zadar, Croatia[1][2]) is Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience and professor of comparative medicine, genetics and psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.[3] He received his MD from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1995 and his PhD from Yale School of Medicine in 1999.[4][5][6]

Šestan and his research were profiled in The New York Times in July 2019.[7] In 2019, he appeared in Nature's 10, a yearly list of "ten people who mattered in science" compiled by the scientific journal Nature.[8] Šestan is a member of HAZU.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b HAZU Biografije novih članova. p. 5. Accessdate=April 3, 2020
  2. ^ "Nenad Šestan: Obama mi je dao 15 milijuna dolara. Moj zadatak je otkriti tajnu našeg mozga!" (in Croatian). May 28, 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  3. ^ Hunt, Katie (August 3, 2022). "Research in pigs shakes up what we know about dying". CNN. Retrieved August 4, 2022.
  4. ^ "Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD". medicine.yale.edu. Yale School of Medicine. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  5. ^ Antonio Regalado (April 25, 2018). "Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body". MIT Technology Review. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  6. ^ Pallab Ghosh (April 27, 2018). "Pig brains kept alive without a body". BBC News. Retrieved April 17, 2019.
  7. ^ Matthew Schaer (July 2, 2019). "Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?". The New York Times. Retrieved July 6, 2019.
  8. ^ "Nature's 10". Nature. Retrieved December 30, 2019.


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