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RICHARD MILNER, PH.D.
Professor
Richard Milner trained at the University of Cambridge where he received his PhD in Neurobiology in 1995 and MD in 1998. He completed postdoctoral training at Cambridge and at The Scripps Research Institute before establishing his independent group there in 2006. He joined SDBRI in 2018. His studies focus on the design of new therapeutic approaches aimed at combating neurological disease by increasing blood supply and reducing vascular breakdown. Dr. Milner serves on grant review committees for the National Multiple Sclerosis Society and the American Heart Association and actively reviews for several scientific journals.
PUBLICATIONS
Halder, S. K., Kant, R. and Milner, R. (2018). Hypoxic pre-conditioning suppresses experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by modifying multiple properties of blood vessels. Acta. Neuropathologica. Communications. 6, 86. PDF
Halder, S. K., Kant, R. and Milner, R. (2018). Chronic mild hypoxia promotes profound vascular remodeling in spinal cord blood vessels, preferentially in white matter, via an a5b1 integrin-mediated mechanism. Angiogenesis. 21, 251-266.
Welser, J., Halder, S. K., Kant, R., Boroujerdi, A. and Milner, R. (2017). Endothelial a6b4 integrin protects during experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis-induced neuroinflammation by maintaining vascular integrity and tight junction protein expression. J. Neuroinflamm. 14, 217. PDF
Boroujerdi, A. and Milner, R. (2015). Defining the critical hypoxic threshold that promotes vascular remodeling in the brain. Exp. Neurol. 263, 132-140. PDF
Boroujerdi, A., Welser-Alves, J. V. & Milner, R. (2013). Extensive vascular remodeling in the spinal cord of pre-symptomatic experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis mice; increased vessel expression of fibronectin and the a5b1 integrin. Exp. Neurol. 250, 43-51. PDF
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