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Roger Barker

Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the University of Cambridge.

Roger Barker is the Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the University of Cambridge and at Addenbrooke's Hospital.  He trained at Oxford and London and has been in his current position since 2000, after completing an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship.  

Roger combines basic research looking at novel therapies to treat chronic neurodegenerative disorders of the brain with clinically-based work aimed at better defining such disorders. He is the co-ordinator of the TRANSEURO project looking at fetal cell grafting in patients with early Parkinson's Disease and is part of the GFORCE PD initiative as well as Director of the ISSCR.

Visit website: http://www.neuroscience.cam.ac.uk/directory/profile.php?=barker

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See also: Academia University of Cambridge - Collegiate research university in Cambridge, United Kingdom

Details last updated 24-Jul-2020

Roger Barker News

Tissue transplants as standard treatments for Parkinson’s- a promising approach

The Guardian - 04-Dec-2022

This one-off treatment could nullify the complications that you get with chronic medications

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Fetal cells injected into brain to cure Parkinson’s

New Scientist - 26-May-2015

20 year old treatment rediscovered after late recovery in original patients

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