Professor Neil Scolding

Research summary

Neil Scolding is the Burden Professor and Director of the Bristol Institute of Clinical Neurosciences; he is currently based at Learning and Research, Southmead Hospital.

He trained in Neurology in Cardiff, in Cambridge, and at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, and was a University Lecturer and Consultant Neurologist in Cambridge before coming to Bristol as the Foundation Burden chairholder in 1999.

Neil has a clinical and research interest in the biology of multiple sclerosis and in particular in  the clinical and experimental exploration of cell-based treatments designed to protect and repair the brain and spinal cord in patients ...

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Recent publications

• Sarkar, P, Redondo, J, Kemp, K, Ginty, M, Wilkins, A, Scolding, NJ & Rice, CM, 2018, ‘Reduced neuroprotective potential of the mesenchymal stromal cell secretome with ex vivo expansion, age and progressive multiple sclerosis’. Cytotherapy, vol 20., pp. 21-28
• Kemp, K, Dey, R, Verhagen, J, Scolding, N, Usowicz, M & Wilkins, A, 2018, ‘Aberrant cerebellar Purkinje cell function repaired in vivo by fusion with infiltrating bone marrow-derived cells’. Acta Neuropathologica.

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