Our Scientific Advisory Panel
An expert Scientific Advisory Panel provides our organisation with expert professional guidance, which informs our research strategy, information resources and our guidance. Members of the panel include highly regarded experts from neurological, neuropsychological, neuropsychiatric, neuro-immunological, paediatric, therapeutic and other relevant fields. The panel meets annually to exchange information and progress research initiatives.


Professor Benedict Michael MBChB (Hons), FRCP (Neurol), PhD
CHAIR OF THE SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL - Professor of Neuroscience, MRC Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant Neurologist Clinical Infection, Microbiology & Immunology
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Assoc. Professor Kiran Thakur
VICECHAIR SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY PANEL; Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center - New York Presbyterian Hospital.
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Dr Nicholas Davies PhD FRCP
Consultant neurologist, Chelsea and Westminster, Charing Cross, and the Royal Marsden Hospitals in London. Neurologist to the UK's National Centre for Human Retrovirology.
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Dr Sophie Binks
Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Neurology SpR at Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Oxford
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Dr Tina Damodar
India alliance (Wellcome Trust/ DBT) Clinical & Public Health Fellow, Department of Neurovirology, National Institute of Mental Health & Neurosciences (NIMHANS), Bangalore, India
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Professor Carsten Finke
Heisenberg Professor for Cognitive Neurology and Consultant Neurologist at the Department of Neurology at Charité Berlin.
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Dr Jessica Fish
Clinical Neuropsychologist and Lecturer Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow Wolfson Neuro Rehabilitation Centre, St George’s Hospital
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Dr Matteo Gastaldi
Head of the Neuroimmunology Research Unit in Pavia and the Co-head of the Neuroimmunology Diagnostic Laboratory.
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Professor Sarosh R Irani BMBCh MA (Oxon) DPhil FRCP FEAN
Neurologist and Scientist at the Mayo Clinic Florida, Professor of Autoimmune Neurology at the University of Oxford and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the University of Southern Denmark
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Professor Peter Kennedy CBE, MD, PhD, DSc, FRCP, FMedSci, FRSE
Honorary Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Neuroscience and Psychology, University of Glasgow, and Honorary Professor, Queen Mary University of London
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Dr Rachel Kneen
Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust
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Professor Frank Leypoldt
Neuroimmunology, Inst. of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, Department of Neurology Kiel University, Kiel, Germany
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Honorary Professor Nick Makwana BSc MBChB MRCPCH PCME MD
Honorary Professor (Institute of Clinical Sciences), University of Birmingham / Consultant Paediatrician (Paediatric Allergy), Department of Child Health, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust / Group Director, Women and Child Health, Sandwell and West Birmingham NHS Trust / Paediatric MBChB Curriculum Lead, University of Birmingham / Chair Paediatric Allergy Committee, BSACI
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Dr Thomas Pollak
NIHR Clinical Lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience at King’s College London and a specialty trainee general adult psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust.
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Assist. Professor Omar Siddiqi
Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School and a visiting lecturer at the University of Zambia School of Medicine in Lusaka, Zambia
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Dr James Sejvar
Neuroepidemiologist, Department of Neurology, University of Pittsburgh and, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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Dr Arleta Starza - Smith
Director of Clinical Psychology and Neuropsychology Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
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Assoc. Professor Maarten Titulaer
Associate Professor of Neurology and co-director of the Academic Center for Neuro-inflammatory disorders at the Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam
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Professor Lance Turtle PhD FRCP DTMH
Prof. Lance Turtle PhD FRCP DTMH Chair in Immunity and Infectious Diseases Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases Deputy Head of Department, Clinical Infection, Microbiology and Immunology University of Liverpool
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Professor Arun Venkatesan MD PhD
Professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, in the Department of Neurology, Division of Neuroimmunology and Neuroinfectious Diseases
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Professor Angela Vincent FRCPath FMedSci FRS
Emeritus Professor of Neuroimmunology at the University of Oxford, and an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College
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Professor Michael Wilson
Professor, Neurology UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences, School of Medicine, San Francisco
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Dr Greta Wood
NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Research Fellow for the national COVID-19 Clinical Neuroscience Study
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