Dr Brian Dickie MBE
Brian graduated in 1991 with a PhD in Neuropharmacology from the University of Wales College of Medicine.
He then took up a research fellowship in the Department of Pharmacology, University of Oxford, where his research on the mechanisms of cell death in Parkinson’s disease was combined with teaching roles as Departmental Tutor and Lecturer in Neuroscience at Lincoln College, Oxford.
Since 1997, Brian has worked for the MND Association as Director of Research Development, with the job of providing strategic guidance, raising the Association’s profile within the biomedical and care research communities, increasing the quantity and quality of Association-sponsored and collaborative research, organising the annual International Symposium on Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Motor Neurone Disease and communicating advances in MND research to lay and specialist audiences.