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Geoffrey Raisman

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Geoffrey Raisman

Professor Geoffrey (Geoff) Raisman FRS (28 June 1939 – 27 January 2017) was a British neuroscientist.[1][2]

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Personal life

He was born in Leeds and died in London. His parents were Harry and Celia Raisman, both also born in Leeds. Geoffrey's grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Lithuania. He describes his family's story in his book, The Undark Sky.[3] Raisman was not religious.[4] He attended Roundhay School and Pembroke College, Oxford.[5]

Career

He was chair of neural regeneration at University College London's Institute of Neurology.[6][7] In 2014, his team claimed to have regrown nerve cells where they had been severed, restoring the damaged spinal cord of the Polish paraplegic Darek Fidyka.[8]

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References

  1. ^ "RAISMAN, Prof. Geoffrey". Who's Who. Vol. 2015 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ Fawcett, James (2018). "Geoffrey Raisman. 28 June 1939—27 January 2017". Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society. doi:10.1098/rsbm.2018.0001
  3. ^ Raisman, Geoffrey (27 November 2002). The Undark Sky: A Story of Four Poor Brothers (First ed.). Newport Pagnell: Harehills Press. ISBN 9780954393809.
  4. ^ Anon (2004). "Geoff Raisman". The Lancet. 364 (9447): 1749. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)17382-0. S2CID 205941426.
  5. ^ "Meet the working-class lad from Leeds who has just changed the world - Mirror Online". Daily Mirror. 22 October 2014.
  6. ^ "Paralysed man walks again after cell transplant - BBC News". BBC News. 21 October 2014.
  7. ^ "British Jewish doctor helps paralysed man walk again | The Jewish Chronicle". Archived from the original on 22 October 2014.
  8. ^ "Paralysed man Darek Fidyka walks again after pioneering surgery". TheGuardian.com. 20 October 2014.


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