Patrik Brundin


Patrik Brundin is director of the Center for Neurodegenerative Science and Jay Van Andel Endowed Chair at Van Andel Research Institute in Grand Rapids, Michigan and a leading Parkinson's disease researcher. He was part of the team that conducted the first cell transplant surgeries designed to restore lost dopamine-producing cells in Parkinson's disease, documented by J. William Langston in the book The Case of the Frozen Addicts. Brundin has authored or co-authored some 350 peer-reviewed articles in the field of neurology, most of which are on Parkinson's disease and related disorders.
He was previously Professor of Neuroscience at Lund University in Sweden. He is a member of the Oxford Parkinson's Disease Centre scientific advisory board and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Parkinson's Disease.
He performed his doctoral studies with the Swedish neuroscientist :sv:Anders Björklund| Anders Björklund and received his MD and PhD at Lund University in 1992.