Personal Chair: Malcolm Macleod

Malcolm Macleod has been made a Personal Chair in Neurology and Translational Neuroscience.

Professor Macleod graduated from the University of Edinburgh with first-class honours in BSc Medical Sciences (Pharmacology) in 1988, in Medicine in 1991 and with a PhD in 2001.

He trained in neurology in Edinburgh and Melbourne and is now Clinical Lead for Neurology at NHS Forth Valley.

His early research was laboratory based and focussed on the possibility of neuroprotection in cerebral ischaemia, a condition in which there is an insufficent supply of blood to the brain.

More recently Professor Macleod has played a leading role in the development of an evidence-based approach to translational neuroscience (getting fundamental knowledge into effective treatments), focussing on conditions such as stroke, Alzheimer’s disease and multiple sclerosis.

As a clinical trialist he is one of the chief investigators of EuroHYP-1, a 1,500-patient randomised clinical trial of hypothermia for acute stroke.

He is also President of the European Stroke Research Network for Hypothermia and founding coordinator of CAMARADES, the Collaborative Approach to Meta-analysis and Review of Animal Data from Experimental Studies.

Professor Macleod has a long association with the University of Edinburgh, having been President of Edinburgh University Students’ Association in 1988/89 and Rector of the University from 1994 to 1997.