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david corey -lsb- https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/ben-barres stanford homepage -rsb- stanford university west orange , new jersey , us us barbara barres 150px us neurobiology neuroscience gender discrimination california ben barres
 ben a. barres m.i.t. harvard medical school -lrb- phd -rrb- -lrb- bs -rrb- dartmouth college -lrb- md -rrb-
ben barres

ben a. barres -lrb- born barbara barres , in 1955 -rrb- is an american neurobiologist at stanford university .
his research focuses on the interaction between neurons and glial cells in the nervous system .
since 2008 , he has been chair of the neurobiology department at stanford university school of medicine .
he changed his sex to male in 1997 , and became the first openly transgender scientist in the us national academy of sciences in 2013 .
