Roger Barker

Roger Barker portrait

University of Cambridge

Addenbrooke's Hospital

TRANSEURO

Roger A. Barker is the Professor of Clinical Neuroscience and Honorary Consultant in Neurology at the University of Cambridge and at Addenbrooke's Hospital.  He trained at Oxford and London and has been in his current position for over ten years having completed an MRC Clinician Scientist Fellowship just prior to this.  His main interests are in the neurodegenerative disorders of the nervous system in particular Parkinson's disease and Huntington's disease.  He combines basic research looking at novel therapies (including cell transplants) to treat these conditions with clinically based work on defining the natural history and heterogeneity of both Huntington's disease and Parkinson's disease and is the co-ordinator of the FP7 TRANSEURO project looking at fetal cell grafting in patients with early Parkinson's.