Peter Nigel Leigh
Professor of Neurology and Hon Consultant Neurologist
Trafford Centre for Medical Research,
Brighton and Sussex Medical School,
Falmer, Brighton BR1 9RY
Present Post: Feb 8th 2011-present (HEFCE: Part Time – 2011-2015, 6 PA’s per week; from 2016, 8 PA’s (2 clinical, 6 academic): Professor of Neurology, Brighton and Sussex Medical School; Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals Trust.
Career Break: 1st July 2010 – 7th February 2011 (retirement).
Previous Senior Appointments:
July 1st 2010-Feb 7 2011: Professor Emeritus, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, and Honorary Consultant Neurologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, The Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust, and The South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.
1st Sept 2007-30 June 2010 (HEFCE): Professor of Clinical Neurology and Head, Section of Experimental Neurology, Department of Clinical Neuroscience, King’s College London;
Honorary Consultant Neurologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, The Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust, and The South London and Maudsley NHS Trust.
1st June 1989-August 31st 2007(HEFCE): Head, University Department of Neurology, subsequently Dept of Clinical Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London.
Also Honorary Consultant Neurologist, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London, The Guy’s and St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust, and The South London and Maudsley NHS Trust;
Co-Deputy Director, MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research (2005 – 2008) and Director, King’s MND Care and Research Centre (1995-2010).
March 1986-May ’89 (HEFCE): Senior Lecturer in Neurology, St. George’s Hospital Medical School; Honorary Consultant Neurologist, St George’s and Atkinson Morley’s Hospitals, London.
April 1982-Feb’86 (NHS): Consultant Neurologist, Wessex Neurological Centre (1982-84) and Senior Lecturer in Neurology Southampton University/Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Wessex Neurological Centre (1984-86).
Degrees and diplomas:
1967:BSc (Anatomy), London Hospital Medical College, University of London: 1st Class Honours
1970:MB BS, London Hospital Medical College: Distinctions in Medicine & Pathology
1986: PhD, University of London, Institute of Psychiatry.
1972: MRCP (London); 1988, FRCP
2003: Elected Fellow, Academy of Medical Sciences.
American Academy of Neurology: Corresponding Fellow
Awards and Prizes:
1997: Forbes Norris Award from the International Alliance of MND/ALS Associations
2003: Erb-Duchenne Award of the German Neuromuscular Society
2004: Sheila Essey Award of the American Academy of Neurology.
Current external honorary roles:
Scientific Co-chair, MS Society’s Research Strategy Committee
Chair, PSP Association Research Committee
Chair, Independent Data Monitoring and Ethics Committee, NORAPS Trial.
Recent grants (i.e., at Sussex):
Title: Defining disease progression in ALS: A novel analytic approach using existing clinical and imaging datasets. PI: M Cercignani, with co-applicants Leigh (BSMS), Alexander and Zhang (UCL), Al-Chalabi and Simmons (KCL). Amount: £77,117 Duration: 36 months (PhD studentship) – commencing Jan 2014 Source: MND Association
Title: Neurite Orientation Dispersion and Density Imaging (‘NODDI’) – A New Approach to Understanding Cellular Pathology in MND. PI: Leigh, with co-applicants Cercignani (BSMS), Alexander and Zhang (UCL), Seth (US). Amount: £91,778 Duration: 2014-2016 Source: MND Association
Title: MIROCALS: Modifying the Immune Response and Outcome in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS). PI: Dr G Bensimon (Paris and Nimes); Leigh co-coordinator and Chief Investigator for UK and France. Amount: €6M (€1.2M for BSMS/Sussex). Duration, 4 years 2015-2021. Source: European Union H2020. (www.mirocals.eu)
Title: PROSPECT-MR: PSP research network neuroimaging. PI: J Rowe (Cambridge) with co-applicants Leigh and 8 others. (National PSP Network). Amount: £436,697 (£18,457 for Brighton). Duration: 36 months from April 2015. Source: PSP Association.
Title: Identification of non-coding RNA biomarkers from serum and cerebrospinal fluid for use as biomarkers in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients. PI: M Hafezparast (US); co-applicants: Leigh, Newbury (BSMS); Turner (Oxford)
Amount: £120,405 Duration: 24 months from January 2016 Source: Motor Neurone Disease Association.
Title: Development and Validation of an ‘Unbiased’ Approach to Staging Clinicopathological Events in ALS/MND. Co-Applicant and co-sponsor for Junior Non-Clinical Fellowship for Dr Matt Gabel. Amount: £101,455. Duration: May 2017-April 2019. Source: Motor Neurone Disease Association.
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