Ben Barres

Biography

photo of Ben BarresDr. Barres is Co-founder, Annexon Biosciences and Professor and Chair of Neurobiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. He received his B.S. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.D. from Dartmouth Medical School, and his Ph.D. at Harvard Medical School in the laboratory of David Corey. Dr. Barres completed his internship and residency in neurology at the Cornell Cooperating Hospitals Program and his postdoctoral fellowship with Martin Raff at University College London. Dr. Barres has won many teaching awards at Stanford and is the creator and director of the Masters of Science in Medicine Program, a new program at Stanford University to train Ph.D. students in human biology and disease. He is a founding member of the Myelin Repair Foundation that focuses on translational research to develop new drugs for multiple sclerosis, and a co-founder of Annexon Biosciences. Dr. Barres is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Medicine. His laboratory research focuses on the role of neuron-glial interactions in the central nervous system.

Research Interest

 NEUROBIOLOGY