Professor Richard Reynolds Deputy Head, Division of Brain Sciences,Wolfson Neuroscience LaboratoriesImperial College London

“Knowledge, gifting and passion: a recipe for success in Neuroscience”

Organised by the Discipline of Anatomy, School of Medicine and the Galway Neuroscience Centre, in remembrance of the outstanding contributions that the late Professor Turlough Fitzgerald made to Neuroscience and Anatomy research and teaching at UCG/NUIG.

Professor Richard Reynolds Bioprofile: Professor Richard Reynolds studied Pharmacology at King’s College London from 1975 to 1981 before embarking on a career in MS research and has now been Professor of Cellular Neuroscience at Imperial College, London, for the last 13 years. He is the Scientific Director of the UK Multiple Sclerosis Tissue Bank and also heads an MS research unit at the Hammersmith Hospital. Professor Reynolds has been carrying out MS related research for the last 30 years and current research in the unit is designed to gain an understanding of the mechanisms involved in both neurodegeneration and repair processes in the brain in MS. This research is dependent on a supply of well characterised human brain tissue that has been collected by the UK MS Tissue Bank because of the desire of the MS community to contribute to the research in a practical way. This work has led him to be involved in teaching both science and medical students about MS and to travel around the British Isles helping people with the illness understand what is happening to them. At home he enjoys cooking, relaxing with his family, playing the guitar and travelling. Richard is married to Jane, has four children, three grandchildren, and lives in Oxfordshire.

Lunch provided after the lecture

For more information contact david.finn@nuigalway.ie