Sergiu P. Pasca

Sergiu P Pasca

Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences - Sleep Medicine
Member, Bio-X
Member, Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance
Member, Maternal & Child Health Research Institute (MCHRI)
Faculty Fellow, Sarafan ChEM-H
Member, Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Postdoctoral, Stanford University School of Medicine, Neuroscience (2013)
Medical Doctor, Hatieganu School of Medicine, Romania, Medicine (2007)
Affiliation:
Affiliated Faculty
Committee:
Retreat
Pasca Lab website
Vilcek Award
Minds Wide Open documentary
Falling Walls Breakthrough in Life Sciences
TED 2022
Stanford Brain Organogenesis
Assembloids
Profile
spasca@stanford.edu
(650) 497-5922

Related Projects

Funded research
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Stanford Brain Organogenesis Program (Phase 1)

Developing brain organoids – three dimensional brain tissues grown in the lab – to study human brain development, evolution and neuropsychiatric disorders.

Funded research
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Understanding cellular responses induced by chronic implantation of electrodes using a novel human neural differentiation platform

Electrodes implanted in the brain have great potential, with applications in neurodegenerative disease, brain-computer interfaces, and more. However, the presence of electrodes in brain tissue causes a response known as gliosis, in which a scar forms around the electrode, reducing its effectiveness and access to neurons.

Funded research
Wu Tsai Neurosciences Institute
Stanford Brain Rejuvenation Project (Phase 2)

The Stanford Brain Rejuvenation Project is an initiative by leading aging researchers, neuroscientists, chemists, and engineers to understand the basis of brain aging and rejuvenation and how they relate to neurodegeneration.