Visiting Professor: Hugh Perry
Hugh Perry has been made a Visiting Professor in the College of Medicine & Veterinary Medicine.
He is Professor of Experimental Neuropathology at the University of Southampton.
Professor Perry obtained his first degree at the University of Oxford, completing his DPhil in Neuroscience in 1977.
He remained at the University of Oxford and was appointed a Locke Fellow of the Royal Society and then a Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow.
He was appointed Professor in Experimental Neuropathology in 1996. In 1998 he moved to the University of Southampton to take up his current post.
His research interests are in the field of interactions between the immune system and nervous system. He has published more than 275 peer-reviewed papers.
Professor Perry has sat on research advisory and funding panels for the Medical Research Council and a number of biomedical charities including the Multiple Sclerosis Society, International Spinal Research Trust and Motor Neuron Disease Association.
He has acted as a consultant for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies in the area of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disease.
He was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2005 and is Deputy Chair of the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
He has been appointed to the post of Chair of the Medical Research Council Neuroscience and Mental Health Board from April 2012.