Prof David Hunt
Chair of Neuroinflammation Medicine, Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow & Honorary Consultant in Neurology

- Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences
- Institute of Genetics and Cancer
Contact details
- Email: david.hunt@ed.ac.uk
Background
David Hunt is a Wellcome Trust Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant Neurologist who leads clinics and research in the field of brain inflammation. He trained in medicine at Cambridge, London and Basel. His PhD research at Cambridge University was in the field of developmental neuroscience and neuroinflammation. In 2009 he moved to Edinburgh where he completed his neurological training and established a Wellcome Trust-funded laboratory to study the molecular basis of neuroinflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis and lupus.
David runs a weekly clinic for patients with complex neuroinflammatory diseases.
Qualifications
2017 Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians
2009 PhD, University of Cambridge
2000 MB BChir, University of Cambridge
1997 BA Neuroscience, University of Cambridge
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FutureMS cohort profile: a Scottish multicentre inception cohort study of relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis
In:
BMJ Open, vol. 12, pp. e058506
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058506
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Quantitative magnetisation transfer imaging in relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis
In:
Brain Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcac088
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
MRI-derived g-ratio and lesion severity in newly diagnosed multiple sclerosis
In:
Brain Communications
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/braincomms/fcab249
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Rim lesions are demonstrated in early relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis using 3 T-based susceptibility-weighted imaging in a multi-institutional setting
In:
Neuroradiology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00234-021-02768-x
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (E-pub ahead of print) -
FutureMS Cohort Profile: A Scottish Multi-Centre Inception Cohort Study of Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1101/2021.04.15.21253274
Research output: › Preprint (Published)