Nenad Sestan

{{Short description|American professor and researcher}}

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Nenad Šestan (born 1970 in Zadar, Croatia[http://info.hazu.hr/upload/File/Mediji14/BIOGRAFIJE-NOVIH-CLANOVA-HAZU.pdf HAZU] Biografije novih članova. p. 5. Accessdate=April 3, 2020{{cite web|url=https://www.jutarnji.hr/vijesti/nenad-sestan-obama-mi-je-dao-15-milijuna-dolara.-moj-zadatak-je-otkriti-tajnu-naseg-mozga/2050440/|title=Nenad Šestan: Obama mi je dao 15 milijuna dolara. Moj zadatak je otkriti tajnu našeg mozga!|date=May 28, 2011|language=hr|accessdate=April 17, 2019}}) is Harvey and Kate Cushing Professor of Neuroscience and professor of comparative medicine, genetics and psychiatry at the Yale School of Medicine.{{cite news |last1=Hunt |first1=Katie |title=Research in pigs shakes up what we know about dying |url=https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/03/health/dead-pigs-restore-cellular-function-scn/index.html |access-date=August 4, 2022 |publisher=CNN |date=August 3, 2022}} He received his MD from the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb in 1995 and his PhD from Yale School of Medicine in 1999.{{cite web|url=https://medicine.yale.edu/neuroscience/people/nenad_sestan.profile|title=Nenad Sestan, MD, PhD|publisher=Yale School of Medicine|website=medicine.yale.edu|accessdate=April 17, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611007/researchers-are-keeping-pig-brains-alive-outside-the-body/|title=Researchers are keeping pig brains alive outside the body|author=Antonio Regalado|date=April 25, 2018|publisher=MIT Technology Review|accessdate=April 17, 2019}}{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-43928318|title=Pig brains kept alive without a body|author=Pallab Ghosh|date=April 27, 2018|work=BBC News|accessdate=April 17, 2019}}

Šestan and his research were profiled in The New York Times in July 2019.{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/02/magazine/dead-pig-brains-reanimation.html|title=Scientists Are Giving Dead Brains New Life. What Could Go Wrong?|author=Matthew Schaer|date=July 2, 2019|work=The New York Times|accessdate=July 6, 2019}} In 2019, he appeared in Nature's 10, a yearly list of "ten people who mattered in science" compiled by the scientific journal Nature.{{cite web|url=https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-019-03749-0/index.html|title=Nature's 10|work=Nature|accessdate=December 30, 2019}}

Šestan is a member of HAZU.