Anne Huntemer-Silveira

PhD 2025

PhD Thesis

SpINs for SCI: Development of Dorsal Spinal Interneurons for Application in Spinal Cord Injury Therapeutics

Undergraduate Institution and Major:

Western Washington University, B.S. in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018

Graduate Advisor:

Ann Parr, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Neurosurgery
Lucy Vulchanova, Ph.D., Department of Neuroscience

Graduate Publications:

  • Roman A*, Huntemer-Silveira A*, Waldron MA, Khalid Z, Blake J, Parr AM, Low WC. Transplanting region-specific exogenic neuronal cells for treating spinal cord injury. Cell Transplant. 2024 Jan-Dec;33:9636897241241998.
  • Patil N, Korenfeld O, Scalf RN, Lavoie N, Huntemer-Silveira A, Han G, Swenson R, Parr AM. Electrical stimulation affects the differentiation of transplanted regionally specific human spinal neural progenitor cells (sNPCs) after chronic spinal cord injury. Stem Cell Res Ther. 2023 Dec 20;14(1):378.
  • Huntemer-Silveira A, Malone D, Frie A, Walsh P, Parr AM. Accelerated differentiation of human induced pluripotent stem cells into regionally specific dorsal and ventral spinal neural progenitor cells for application in spinal cord therapeutics. Front Neurosci. 2023 Sep 15;17:1251906.
  • Huntemer-Silveira A, Patil N, Brickner MA, Parr AM. Strategies for oligodendrocyte and myelin repair in traumatic CNS injury. Front Cell Neurosci. 2021 Jan 11;14:619707.

GPN Committees:

Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion Committee 2021-2024
GPN Student Board 2019-2021

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