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Dr. Miles G. Cunningham, M.D., Ph.D. is currently a neuropsychiatrist at Harvard University's McLean Hospital. He has been involved in scientific work relating to stem cell biology and neural transplantation for many years and was one of the first to transplant stem cells into the central nervous system. At the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Strokes (NINDS), Bethesda, Maryland, Dr. Cunningham trained with Dr. Ronald D. G. McKay, one of the "fathers" of neural stem cell biology, in developing neural stem cell lines. In addition, he has worked with Dr. Anders Bjorklund, at the University of Lund, Sweden, on the transplantation of cell lines into animal models of neurologic diseases. Dr. Cunningham earned his undergraduate degree in psychology at the University of Arkansas-Fayetteville; his Ph.D. in the field of Brain Sciences and Cognitive Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and his M.D. in Psychiatry from the Harvard University Medical School. He has numerous medical inventions to his credit and has published more than 25 scientific papers. | 