Raymond Douglas Lund (born 10 February 1940) is a British

anatomist Anatomy () is the branch of biology concerned with the study of the structure of organisms and their parts. Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things. It is an old science, having its ...

. He was a

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at the John Moran Eye Center, (

University of Utah The University of Utah (U of U, UofU, or simply The U) is a public research university in Salt Lake City, Utah. It is the flagship institution of the Utah System of Higher Education. The university was established in 1850 as the University of De ...

). He was previously professor of anatomy at the

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. He was also a professor at the University of Washington, The Medical University of South Carolina, and the University of Pittsburgh. He has studied the fine detail of sensory pathways in the brains of mammals, and was the first person to demonstrate that transplants of neural cells can rewire into the recipient's brain, meaning that stem cell implants have the potential to treat some forms of blindness, such as age-related

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and

retinitis pigmentosa Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a genetic disorder of the eyes that causes loss of vision. Symptoms include trouble seeing at night and decreasing peripheral vision (side and upper or lower visual field). As peripheral vision worsens, people may ...

. (Transplanted neural tissue develops connections with host rat brain. Lund RD, Hauschka SD. Science. 1976 Aug 13;193(4253):582-4. doi: 10.1126/science.959815). He also made important contributions to understanding the abnormal connections in the visual pathways of albino animals. (Uncrossed Visual Pathways of Hooded and Albino Rats. Lund RD. Science. 1965 Sep 24;149(3691):1506-7. doi: 10.1126/science.149.3691.1506). In 1978 he published an influential text book on developmental neuroscience: Development and Plasticity of the Brain: An Introduction, Oxford University Press, He was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Society Fellowship of the Royal Society (FRS, ForMemRS and HonFRS) is an award granted by the judges of the Royal Society of London to individuals who have made a "substantial contribution to the improvement of natural science, natural knowledge, incl ...

in 1992.

References

External links

Uuhsc.utah.edu

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lund, Raymond 1940 births Living people Professors of Anatomy (Cambridge) University of Utah faculty British anatomists Fellows of the Royal Society British expatriates in the United States University of Washington faculty University of Pittsburgh faculty Medical University of South Carolina faculty