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Search every verified Anders Björklund interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a 2012 interview, Professor Anders Björklund, then of Lund University, discussed his career in Parkinson's disease research, which he began in the mid-1960s. He said he was "very interested in how to repair the brain how to make a damaged brain or a dysfunctional part of the brain recover its function." Björklund described his most important achievement as "to move cell transplantation into the focus of research," noting that when the work started in the 1970s it was "looked upon as a rather meaningless idea which would be hopeless from the beginning." He recounted that his groundbreaking experiments led to nerve cell transplants on Parkinson's patients in 1987, which showed for the first time that transplanted brain cells from embryos can survive and function in the brain.
“I'm very interested in how to repair the brain how to make a damaged brain or a dysfunctional part of the brain recover its function”
“the most important achievement I've been involved in is to move cell transplantation into the focus of research. When we started this in the '70s it was looked upon as a rather meaningless idea which would be hopeless from the beginning.”
Bagadilico's Anders Björklund talks about his long career in Parkinson's disease research. He has worked at Lund University since the mid-1960s and is most well-known for his groundbreaking experiments which led to nerve cell transplants on Parkinson's patients in 1987. The tests showed for the first time that transplanted brain cells from embryos can survive and function in the brain.
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