Mubeen Goolam

Biography

Dr Mubeen Goolam is the Principal Investigator of the Stem Cell Modelling of Development and Disease Group in the Department of Human Biology and the Neuroscience Institute at the University of Cape Town. Mubeen received his BSc in Genetics and Microbiology and his Honours and MSc degrees in Medical Cell Biology from the University of Cape Town. In 2012 he was awarded the Mary Gray Fellowship to St John’s College, at the University of Cambridge and undertook a PhD in Physiology, Development and Neuroscience in the Zernicka-Goetz lab. He then moved to the University of Oxford as a Junior Research Fellow to Wolfson College and took up a post-doctoral position in the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology in the Robertson Lab. He returned to the University of Cape Town in 2020 to establish his own 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 and neural tube to investigate early human brain and spinal cord development as well as create a model to study neurodevelopmental disorders in a dish