Professor Roger Barker

I am the Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and Consultant Neurologist at Addenbrooke's Hospital. I have been running the regional NHS Huntington's Disease (HD) for the last 25 years as well as clinics in Parkinson's Disease (PD). 

My research investigates why patients with PD and HD vary in their clinical features and how we can use this information to take new experimental therapies into early phase clinical trials including cell and gene therapies. I am also heavily involved with the ARUK funded Drug Discovery Institute in Cambridge as well as being Chair of Neurodegeneration at LifeArc. 

Project/study information

Our work is designed to better understand the problems seen in PD and HD and why this is different in different patients. We do this by studying patients as well as in the lab using different models of disease. We then use this information to take new therapies to clinic and the optimal patient for this intervention.