Within 10 days of Neil’s death Professor Chris Shaw, the same man who diagnosed Neil, made the most significant ever breakthrough in MND research by identifying the genes which cause it.
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Christopher Shaw is Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. He is also an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at King’s College Hospital and Neurogeneticist at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. His early training in General Medicine and Neurology was conducted in New Zealand. He came to Cambridge in 1992 on a Wellcome Trust Fellowship to study Neurobiology. In 1995 he moved to the Institute of Psychiatry. His major area of clinical and research interest is in the genetic and molecular basis of motor neurone disease (MND, also known as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis or Lou Gherig’s disease). He runs a clinic for patients with MND/ALS at King’s College Hospital and for other inherited neurological disorders at Guy’s Hospital.
