Rate My Professor Stuart Hodgetts

Associate Professor Stuart Hodgetts serves as Senior Lecturer in the School of Human Sciences at the University of Western Australia (UWA) and Director of the Spinal Cord Repair Laboratory. He holds a BSc and PhD from the University of Essex. His career includes 2.5 years of postdoctoral research at the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation on immunological gene transcription and seven years in UWA's School of Anatomy and Human Biology Muscle Research Team developing cell transplantation therapies for Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Since 2003, Hodgetts has specialized in spinal cord repair, utilizing clinical-grade adult human mesenchymal stem cells combined with gene therapy to induce plasticity, in vivo reprogramming, tissue engineering with scaffolds and self-assembling peptides, neuroprotective strategies, immunomodulation of host immune responses, and non-invasive therapies including red/near-infrared photobiomodulation and repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation. Additionally, he is Senior Research Fellow at the Perron Institute for Neurological and Translational Science since 2015, where his laboratory supports collaborations for preclinical regenerative therapies.