Clifford J. Woolf

Biography

Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD was appointed Director of the F.M. Kirby Neurobiology Center and the Program in Neurobiology at Children's Hospital Boston in February 2010. He is also a professor of Neurology and Neurobiology at Harvard Medical School. After training for his MD and PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg South Africa, Dr. Woolf moved to England in 1979. He worked at University College London for close on 20 years, towards the latter part as a Professor of Neurobiology. In 1997, Dr. Woolf moved to Boston as the first incumbent of the Richard J Kitz Chair of Anesthesia Research at Harvard Medical School and established the Neural Plasticity Research Group, based in the Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care at the Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr Woolf is a faculty member of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and of the Department of Neurobiology and the Program in Immunology at Harvard Medical School. 

Research Interest

Neurology and Neurobiology