Lawrence Moon PhD

Dr. Lawrence Moon obtained first-class honors in his undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford and was awarded his Ph.D. for work relating to the use of chondroitinase ABC in a model of brain injury in Prof. James Fawcett’s lab at the University of Cambridge. His postdoctoral training was in Prof. Mary Bartlett Bunge’s lab at the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis where in collaboration with Prof. Fred Gage’s lab he identified a novel set of genes that promote regrowth of injured CNS axons in vitro and in vivo.

His lab in London uses rodent models of spinal cord injury and stroke to evaluate candidate therapies for neural repair, including Neurotrophin-3. His lab is currently funded by the International Spinal Research Trust, the Brain Research Trust, the Rosetrees Trust, and the UK’s Medical Research Council.

For fun and to accelerate research, his team also uses 3D printing, custom electronics, and artificial neural networks to automate and improve many of the methods they use in the lab. He is a co-founder of Research Devices Ltd with the goal of providing novel in-cage solutions for rodent behavioral testing.