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Yves-Alain Barde

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Barde in 2017
Education University of Geneva (PhD)
Known for work on Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF)
Awards EMBO Member
Scientific career
Institutions Cardiff University
University of Basel
Max Planck Institute of Psychiatry
Thesis Potassium-induced increase in oxygen consumption of brown adipose tissue from the rat (1975)

Yves-Alain Barde FRS is a professor of Neurobiology at Cardiff University. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 2017.

Barde was awarded the IPSEN prize, the Ameritec Foundation Award and the Perl-UNC Prize. He is a member of the European Molecular Biology Organization and External Member of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology.

Academic publications

Barde is the author of hundreds of academic publications which have been cited over 42,000 times according to Google Scholar.

Selected works

  • Physiology of the neurotrophins, GR Lewin, YA Barde, Annual review of neuroscience 19 (1), 289-317, 1996.
  • Purification of a new neurotrophic factor from mammalian brain., YA Barde, D Edgar, H Thoenen, The EMBO journal 1 (5), 549-553, 1982.
  • Trophic factors and neuronal survival, YA Barde, Neuron 2 (6), 1525-1534, 1989.
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