Professor Andrea Malaspina

Professor of Neurology and the Clinical Academic Lead of the Queen Square Motor Neuron Disease Centre, UCL

Andrea Malaspina is a Professor of Neurology and the Clinical Academic Lead of the Queen Square Motor Neuron Disease Centre, Institute of Neurology, UCL. After obtaining a PhD in Molecular Neurobiology from Imperial College London, he has worked as a Consultant Neurologist at Barts Health and founded the local MND Care and Research Centre with an active role in Clinical Neurology and research interests in neuromuscular and motor cell disorders. In 2009, he founded the Barts Health MND Care and Research Centre. In 2012, he took up a formal academic appointment as Clinical Senior Lecturer with the Barts and The London Medical School and as Professor of Neurology Neurology from 2019. He has been responsible for MND research in the North-Thames LCRN and has led the Neurodegeneration Research Group at the Blizard Institute, London.