• Clinician, scientist, researcher, innovator, entrepreneur

• Professor of Neurosurgery and Neurosciences, Chairman Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Basel, Chief Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery & Chief Pediatric Neurosurgery, University Children’s Hospital of Basel

• Principal Investigator and Group Leader Department of Biomedicine and by courtesy Department of Bioengineering, Basel

• Focus on regeneration medicine

• Past Associate Professor Stanford School of Medicine

BIO

Prof. Raphael Guzman is a Professor of Neurosurgery at the University of Basel in Switzerland and Vice-chair of the Department of Neurosurgery. He is specialized in vascular and pediatric neurosurgery. Within the Department of Biomedicine, he is also the leader of a research group on brain ischemia and regeneration. Raphael Guzman is Professor of Neurosurgery and Vice Chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery at the University Hospital Basel and the University Children’s Hospital of Basel (UKBB).

His clinical expertise is in Pediatric and Cerebrovascular Neurosurgery. Prof. Guzman’s research group examines the clinical relevance of neural stem/progenitor cells (NPC) in brain ischemia and particularly in neonatal hypoxic-ischemia (HI) with regard to white matter regeneration. Neonatal HI is an important cause of cerebral palsy (CP), leading to devastating sensory-motor, cognitive and learning deficits in the growing child. White matter injury is a central feature of HI and CP, and defects in myelination are also commonly identified in other neurodevelopmental disorders, including autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

The Guzman lab is involved in several collaborations with clinical and research groups in Basel including the Neonatology and Pediatric Neurology Departments at UKBB and F. Hoffmann-La Roche. Active International collaborations exist with Stanford University where Prof. Guzman is an adjunct Faculty in Neurosurgery, and with the Department of Biology of the University of Southern Denmark. Part of the imaging is done with the Duke University Center for in vivo microscopy. The Synchrotron imaging is done in collaboration with the University of Saskatchewan, Canada.