Paul R. Sanberg
American scientist and inventor
Paul R. Sanberg is an American scientist and inventor. His early work focused on the causes of brain cell death. His recent research has been on methods of repairing damaged brain tissue, and, in tandem with other scientists, demonstrating that stem cells derived from the blood of bone marrow and umbilical cords can be converted to neural cells.
Sanberg is a distinguished university professor of medicine, engineering, and business at the University of South Florida. He served as Senior Vice President for Research, Innovation and Knowledge Enterprise from 2012 to 2021. He is also the President and Founder of the National Academy of Inventors.
Biography
Paul Sanberg was born in 1955 in Coral Gables, Florida. Sanberg attended Villa Park High School in California and graduated from Staples High School, in Staples, Minnesota, and received his Bachelor of Science (in Psychology and Biology) from York University, in Toronto, Ontario (Canada) in 1976. He then received a Master of Science (Neurological Sciences) from The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (Canada); he received his Ph.D. in 1981 from the Australian National University, which subsequently awarded him a D.Sc. in 1998.
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