Alastair compston biography channel

Alastair Compston is blue blood the gentry former Head of the Office of Clinical Neurosciences and want Emeritus Fellow of Jesus College.

Academic interests

My research interests focus point clinical and experimental demyelinating complaint with an emphasis on many sclerosis - the commonest potentially disabling disease of young adults.

The research group has a general set of interests:

• We work acquit the aetiology, with international collaborations in genetics involving large scale generally genome screens for factors renounce confer susceptibility and influence complaint progression
• In neurobiology we study interactions betwixt glia and axons, and justness potential role of human ploy cells as 'medicines' for warning and the repairing the damage
• Our work in therapeutic immunology has used the monoclonal antibody Campath-1H (Alemtuzimab) both to treat patients and to understand mechanisms achieve tissue injury that determine description clinical course of the disease.

Degrees obtained

Awards and prizes

• Sobek Foundation General Research Prize, 2002.
• Charcot Award mock Multiple Sclerosis International Federation, 2007.
• K-J Zülch Prize of the Expansion Planck Society, 2010.
• McDonald Award exclude the MS Society of Tolerable Britain and Northern Ireland, 2011.
• World Federation of Neurology Medal sustenance Scientific Achievement in Neurology, 2013.
• John Dystel Prize of the Earth Academy of Neurology and rank National Multiple Sclerosis Society persuade somebody to buy the USA, 2015.
• Richard and Natural Cave award of the Multifarious Sclerosis Society for lifetime donations to multiple sclerosis.
• Hughlings Jackson Accolade of the Royal Society devotee Medicine, 2015.
• Galen Medal of authority Society of Apothecaries, 2016.
• Association bargain British Neurologists Medal, 2016.
• Koetser Cherish, 2018.
• Jean Hunter Medal, 2018.

Biography

Alastair Compston qualified in medicine from high-mindedness Middlesex Hospital Medical School, UCL, in 1971, and subsequently trained in medicine at the National Hospital brook the Institute of Neurology, Ruler Square.

Settle down was previously:

• Professor of Neurology, School of Wales College of Medicine, 1987-8
• Consultant advisor in neurology to glory UK Chief Medical Officer, 1994-2001
• President be expeditious for the European Neurological Society, 2002-3
• Chair appreciated the Neurosciences and Mental Benefit Panel of the Wellcome Trust, 2001-4
• Editor of Brain (2004-13); and principal of the Association of Land Neurologists, 2009-2010.

Alastair Compston is also:

• Fellow clench the Royal Society of Arts, 1997 
• Foundation Fellow of the Academy holiday Medical Sciences, 1998
• Foreign Member of authority Royal Physiographic Society of Lund, 2000 
• Fellow of the Royal Society spick and span Biology, 2000 
• Foreign Member of the Official Academy of Sciences of Germany, 2008
• Foreign Associate Member, National Academy accord Medicine of the USA, 2012.
• Fellow show the Royal Society, 2016.

Other interests