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

• Wilkins, A & Scolding, N, 2017, ‘Can the optic nerve be repaired?’. Lancet Neurology, vol 16., pp. 172-173
• Redondo, J, Sarkar, P, Kemp, K, Virgo, PF, Pawade, J, Norton, A, Emery, D, Guttridge, MG, Marks, D, Wilkins, A, Scolding, N & Rice, CM, 2017, ‘Reduced cellularity of bone marrow in multiple sclerosis with decreased MSC expansion potential and premature aging in vitro’. Multiple Sclerosis.

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