David Dexter promoted to Full Professor

Congratulations to David Dexter, who was promoted to Full Professor in the last promotion exercise.

Congratulations to Professor David Dexter, who was promoted to Full Professor in the last promotion exercise.

David obtained his BSc Pharmacology degree at the University of Bradford and his PhD in NeuroPharmacology at the Institute of Psychiatry, University of London. He was awarded a lectureship position at Imperial College in 1994 and has established a successful research team principally looking into the disease mechanisms that cause Parkinson’s disease and the development of novel drug therapies. His research utilises donated human tissue, cell culture and animal models to identify novel drug targets and translate these finding through animal models into the clinics.

David has produced some seminal papers particularly in the involvement of iron, oxidative stress and mitochondrial deficits in Parkinson’s disease. He was instrumental in setting up the Parkinson’s UK Tissue Bank at the College in 2002, which operates a prospective donor scheme and collects Parkinson’s and healthy donor brains from all over the UK.

In 2009, Parkinson’s UK joined forces with its sister MS Society Tissue Bank to form a joint Tissue Bank, funded jointly by the respective Societies. It holds over 1000 brains and is internationally recognised as a supplier of high quality tissue to foster research into Parkinson’s disease and Multiple Sc