Vanesa Heyd is a researcher in the Developmental Cell Biology Laboratory in FLENI, Argentina. Her research duties involve animal and human Embryonic Stem Cell culture and differentiation in dopamine neurons. She employs techniques including tissue culture, immuno-cytochemistry, RT-PCR, determinations by spectrophotometry, western blot, etc.

Vanesa received her MD and PhD (Medicine and Surgery) degrees from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina. Her thesis research involved the relationship between E-cadheri and expression (CAMs) and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids (GLA, EPA, ETA) in a metastatic tumoral process.

Ongoing Research Projects: Generation of Dopaminergic neurons from human ES cells; Spinal cord injury and OBE ensheathing cells.