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Department of Neurosurgery
421 Lions Research Building
2001 Sixth Street SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
ohxxx021@umn.edu
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Steve Oh
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Steve is a post-doctoral associate in the Neurosurgery research laboratory at the Universityof Minnesota. At YonseiUniversityin Seoul, Korea, he received his Bachelor of Engineer in Food Engineering degree, his Master of Engineer in Food and Biotechnology degree, and his Ph.D. of Engineer in Biomaterials Science and Engineering. While working on his Master’s degree, Steve worked as a research assistant in the organic synthesis laboratory at YonseiUniversitywhere he synthesized modified nucleotides for developing anticancer drugs. While working on his Ph.D., Steve was a research scientist in the natural product research laboratory at YonseiUniversitywhere he searched for new substances from natural products, such as oak tree leaves, for developing antioxidative agents. He then worked in the antibiotic research laboratory at the Korean Research Institute of Bioscience and Biotechnology where he studied 7 new antibiotic peptides from Trichoderma atroviride.
In 2003, Steve accepted a position as a researcher in the Otolaryngology department at the University of Minnesota where he studied the use of stem cells for the regeneration of vestibular and cochlear hair cells in a mouse animal model of inner ear dysfunction. In May of 2003, Steve transferred to the Neurosurgery research laboratory where he is determining ways to induce bone marrow derived multipotent adult progenitor cells (MAPCs) to differentiate into neural cells for restoring function in conditions of neurodegeneration. Specifically, he is determining whether transplants of murine MAPCs can differentiate into Purkinje cells and prevent the loss of host neurons when transplanted into mice with Purkinje cell degeneration and whether transplants of murine MAPCs can ameliorate neurologic defecits with Purkinje cell degeneration.
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