Disease, Disorders, Injury and Repair
Injury and repair
Samit Chakrabarty – Plasticity of motor control in stroke, spinal cord injury, cerebral palsy, Parkinson’s disease
Dr Sue Deuchars – Regeneration of spinal cord by modulation of endogenous stem cells
Dr Ronaldo Ichiyama – Neurodegenerative changes following spinal cord injury
Dr Lorna Dougan – Biomechanics, biophysics
Dr Jessica Kwok – Enhancing plasticity for recovery in spinal cord injury & neurodegenerative diseases
Dr Sarah Astill – Motor Learning & Control, Upper Limb Rehabilitation
Disease of the Nervous System
Dr Rene Frank – In situ structures of Alzheimer’s disease
Dr Eric Hewitt – Cell biology and immunology of amyloid disease
Prof Sheena Radford – Amyloidogenic diseases, mechanisms of protein folding and misfolding
Prof Chris Inglehearn – Understanding the causes of human visual defects
Dr Glenn McConkey – Parasitic infections contribute to neurodegenerative disorders
Dr Sikha Saha – Cerebrovascular Diseases; Stroke Biology and Mechanisms
Dr Ian Wood – The role of HDACs in neurodegenerative conditions
Dr Lin Hua Jiang – Molecular mechanisms of ion channels in health and disease
Dr Patricija van Oosten-Hawle – Transcellular Chaperone Signalling and neurodegenerative disease
Dr Paul Meakin – Neurovascular disease, Alzheimer’s disease
Neurogenetic disorders
Dr Steven Clapcote – Genetic basis of neurological and psychiatric disorder
Dr Sandra Bell – Genetic basis of microcephaly
Dr Jacquie Bond – Genetic basis of microcephaly
Prof Colin Johnson – Inherited retinal dystrophies
Prof Chris Inglehearn – Vision, inherited blindness, schizophrenia & intellectual disability research
Brain Cancer research
Dr Mihaela Lorger – brain metastases
Dr Lucy Stead– Neuro-Oncology, Cancer genomics, Cancer transcriptomics
Professor Susan Short – Treatment of adult brain tumours, glioma biology
Dr Heiko Wurdak– Stem cells; cancer biology; brain tumours
Dr Georgia Mavria – Brain metastasis, brain tumours
Dr Laura Matthews – Brain cancer