Roger Barker
Co-PI (Core Leadership)
University of Cambridge
Roger Barker is the Professor of Clinical Neuroscience at the University of Cambridge and Consultant Neurologist at the Addenbrooke’s Hospital Cambridge. He is a PI in the MRC-Wellcome Trust Stem Cell Institute in Cambridge and Director of the MRC funded UKRMP Stem and Engineered cell hub.
His research seeks to better define the clinical heterogeneity of Parkinson’s (PD) and Huntington’s disease (HD). This has helped him define the best way by which to take new therapies into the clinic. In this respect he has been heavily involved in gene and cell based trials for patients with these conditions.
Recent ASAP Preprints & Published Papers
Activation of transposable elements is linked to a region- and cell-type-specific interferon response in Parkinson’s disease
LINE-1 retrotransposons mediate cis-acting transcriptional control in human pluripotent stem cells and regulate early brain development
