Professor Richard Reynolds

Graduated from King’s College, London University , with a BSc in Pharmacology (1978) and PhD in Neuropharmacology (1981). Joined Imperial College in 1986 and was awarded a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellowship in 1988. Professor of Cellular Neurobiology since 2000 in the Wolfson Neuroscience Laboratories, Division of Brain Sciences, on the Hammersmith Hospital Campus of Imperial College. Adjunct Professor of Neuroscience in the National Centre for Biomedical Engineering Sciences of the National University of Ireland Galway. Director of the UK Multiple Sclerosis Society Tissue Bank since 1998.

Professor Reynolds’ research focuses on understanding the pathogenetic mechanisms involved in demyelination and neurodegeneration in multiple sclerosis and the development of novel therapeutic pathways. This has involved extensive research on human brain tissue from the UK MS Society Tissue Bank, which he set up in 1998, and the development of novel models to investigate molecular pathways of disease. Through collaborations with the biopharmaceutical industry this work has led to a number of important translational approaches to treating clinical progression in MS.  

Tissue Banking at Imperial College

Professor Richard Reynolds is the Scientific Director and principal grant holder for the UK Multiple Sclerosis Tissue Bank (www.ukmstissuebank.imperial.ac.uk) and Technical Advisor and grant holder for the UK Parkinson's Disease Society Tissue Bank (http://www.parkinsonstissuebank.org.uk/). Further information about tissue donation and requesting tissue samples for research can be found on the above web sites.