Professor Richard Knight
MRC bodies you are a member of:
- Clinical Training & Career Development Panel member
Main form of employment:
- University of Edinburgh. Professor of Clinical Neurology
Research group/department web page/s:
Personal remuneration:
- University of Edinburgh
- Occasional honoraria for lectures on CJD & related topics.
Shareholdings and financial interests in companies
- None
Research income during current session [over £50k per grant]
- CJD Epidemiology & Surveillance of CJD. DH.
- National Care Package (CJD). DH
- Development & Evaluation of a disease-specific diagnostic test for CJD based on the detection of PrPSc. Chief Scientist’s Office.
- CSF Real-Time QuIC. Alliance Biosecure.
- MRCC Network of UK Brain Banks: Support for the Co-ordinating Centre. MRC.
Major academic collaborators [national and international]
- National Prion Clinic/MRC Prion Unit. Institute of Neurology, National Hospital, London.
- John Hardy, Institute of Neurology, London.
- Members of the EuroCJD Collaborative Surveillance & Research Group.
- The Roslin Institute, Edinburgh.
- The National Blood Transfusion Services.
- The PIND paediatric surveillance group.
- The Haemophilia Centres Doctors Organisation.
- The HPA.
- Byron Caughey, Rocky mountain Laboratories.
- The Cleveland CJD Pathology Surveillance Unit
Un-remunerated involvement with and membership of medical, bio-medical, pharmaceutical, healthcare provision or science or health policy/communication and similar activities/organisations
- None
Political/pressure group associations:
- None
Family:
- None
