Mubeen Goolam is the Principal Investigator of the African Brain Organoid Lab in the Department of Human Biology and the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town. Mubeen completed his PhD in in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience followed by a post-doctoral position in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at the University of Oxford. In 2020 he joined the University of Cape Town to establish his independent research group. Research in the Goolam lab focuses on using stem cells to model development and disease in culture. They are developing the first African-specific models of the brain to investigate neural development and disorder.
