Investigator

Marc Del Bigio

MD PhD FRCPC (Neuropathology)

  • Accepting Students: No
  • Research Category: Brain, Behaviour, and Development

Contact

Current Positions

Professor - Department of Pathology, University of Manitoba
Neuropathologist - Shared Health Manitoba
Research Scientist, Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba

Education

MD (Manitoba) 1982
PhD (Manitoba) 1987
Postdoc (Saskatchewan) 1989
Neuropathology residency (Toronto) with FRCPC 1993
Postdoc (Paris) 1994

Research Focus

Neurological complications of birth; substance abuse effects on brain; traumatic brain injury; neurologic consequences of genetic diseases

Research Interests

- Hydrocephalus - brain damage and shunt failure
- Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (epigenetic and neuronal changes)
- Autism/Rett
- Brain trauma