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Department of Neurosurgery
Mayo Mail Code 96
420 Delaware St SE
Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455
keene004@umn.edu
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Dirk Keene
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Dirk is an MD/PhD student at the University of Minnesota. Dirk graduated cum laude from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas with a BS degree in Cell and Molecular Biology. While working on his Bachelor’s degree, Dirk volunteered on a research project at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, attempting to demonstrate visual cue discrimination and learning in the common garter snake, Thamnophis radix. He also volunteered in the Biology laboratory at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, on a variety of neuroscience studies involving the tobacco hornworm, Manduca sexta. In 1993, Dirk worked for Harry Hess and Associates as a research assistant, searching for a more effective way to detect deception in Nevada Test Site employees and applicants.
In 1995, Dirk joined the MD/PhD program at the University of Minnesota and has been conducting research in the Neurosurgery research laboratory. He received a National Research Service Award from the National Institutes of Health in 1998 to support his research on the transplantation of fetal LGE in Huntington’s models. Recently he has been focusing on the possible therapeutic effects of a bile acid, taurousodeoxycholic acid, on Huntington’s Disease. In addition, Dirk has been investigating the therapeutic potential of multipotent adult stem cells in Huntington’s Disease. Dirk returned to clinic in June of 2003. Dirk defended on July 23, 2003. Congratulations, Dr. Dirk!
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