Richard Reynolds

Biography

Graduated from King’s College, London University , with a BSc in Pharmacology (1978) and PhD in Neuropharmacology (1981). Joined Imperial College in 1986 and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 1988. Professor of Cellular Neurobiology since 2000 in the Wolfson Neuroscience Laboratories, Division of Brain Sciences, on the Hammersmith Hospital Campus of Imperial College. Appointed Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience in the National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Sciences of the National University of Ireland Galway in 2009 and Visiting Professor at the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2015. Director of the UK Multiple Sclerosis Society Tissue Bank since 1998. Professor Reynolds’ research focuses on understanding the pathogenetic mechanisms involved in demyelination and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis and the development of novel therapeutic pathways. This has involved extensive research on human brain tissue from the UK MS Society Tissue Bank, which he set up in 1998, and the development of novel models to investigate molecular pathways of disease. Through collaborations with the biopharmaceutical industry this work has led to a number of important translational approaches to treating clinical progression in MS.

Research Interest

Pharmacology