Dr Stuart Hodgetts

Since 2004, Dr Stuart Hodgetts has been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Red's Spinal Cord Research Laboratory, within the School of Anatomy & Human Biology (ANHB), University of Western Australia.

Dr Hodgetts has extensive knowledge and expertise in cell based transplantation therapies and has been devoted to this area of research since 1998. He has worked in the field of autoimmunity/immunobiology, spending over two years as postdoctoral a researcher at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, USA, and six years at ANHB conducting research on myoblast transfer therapy as a treatment for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Since 2004, in collaboration with Dr Giles Plant, Dr Hodgetts has applied his expertise in the repair of spinal cord injury (SCI) with transplantation of adult human bone marrow stromal stem cells. For this work, he has successfully obtained funding through the Spinal Cord Society of Australia (now Step Ahead Australia) and the Victorian Neurotrauma Initiative (VNI). He is currently conducting an NRP study using a complete transection model of SCI (rather than an incomplete contusion model used in many other SCI animal studies) to assess human and rat bone marrow cell transplantation and anti-scarring agents.

Current NRP (Chief) Co-investigators:
Dr Giles Plant, UWA
Dr Paul Simmons, St. Vincents Hospital
Dr Phil Horner, Dr Drew Sellers, Washington USA