Nigel Laing
Professor
Neurogenetic Disease
Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research
Australia
Biography
Professor Nigel Laing was born in Scotland and obtained both his BSc (Hons) in Pharmacology (1976) and PhD in Physiology (1979) from the University of Edinburgh. He spent one year as a Post-doc at the University of Oslo (1980) before coming to The University of Western Australia in January 1981. is PhD and early career research was as a developmental neurobiologist investigating how motor neurons and muscles interact and determine each other's properties in the developing embryo.
Research Interest
Identification of disease genes for genetic muscle and neurological disorders. Development of improved diagnostics Development of treatments for genetic muscle diseases Prevention of Genetic Diseases
