Paul Matthews#
| Membership Number: | 4153 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSIOLOGY & NEUROSCIENCE |
| Elected: | 2015 |
| Main Country of Residence: | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/p.matthews |
Present and Previous Positions
- July, 2014- Edmond and Lily Safra Professor of Translational Neuroscience and Therapeutics, Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London
- April, 2012- Professor and Head, Division of Brain Sciences, Department of Medicine, Imperial College London
- Sept 2006- March 2013 Professor of Clinical Neurosciences, Centre for Neuroscience, Department of Medicine
- July, 2012- February 2014 Vice-President for Integrative Medicines Development, Neurosciences and Medicine Development Lead, GlaxoSmithKline (joint appointment with Imperial College)
- Oct 2011- June, 2012 Vice-President for Imaging; Head, Global Imaging Unit, Center for Clinical Studies Excellence, GlaxoSmithKline.
- Oct 2006- March 2008 Vice-President for Imaging, Neurology and Genetics, GlaxoSmithKline.
- Oct 2005- Oct 2011 Vice-President for Imaging; Head, GSK Clinical Imaging Centre (CIC), GlaxoSmithKline.
- Sept 2004- Oct 2005 Head, Department of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford
- Sept 1998- Oct 2005 Professor of Clinical Neurology, University of Oxford
- Sept 1995- Oct 2005 Director, Oxford Centre for Functional Magnetic Imaging of the Brain
- Sept 1995- Aug 98 Reader in Neurology, University of Oxford
- July 1993- Aug 1995 Assistant Professor of Neurology and Neurosurgery and Human Genetics, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
- Staff Neurologist, Montreal Neurological Hospital
- Attending Neurologist, Montreal Children’s Hospital
- Attending Neurologist, Jewish Rehabilitation Hospital
Fields of Scholarship
- Neurology
- Neuroimaging
- Genetics and Neuroimaging
- MRI
- PET
- Drug Development
- Multiple Sclerosis and Neuroinflammatory Disease
- Large Population Studies
- Brain Plasticity
- Drug Discovery
- Biomarkers
Honours and Awards
- 2015 NIHR Senior Investigator
- Elected Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (2014)
- Hon. Officer of the Order of the British Empire (2008) awarded for services to neuroscience
- Elected Member, Association of Physicians (2010)
- MRC Clinical Research Reader (1995-2000), full salary support (competitively awarded in national competition for excellence in research)
- MRC Clinical Research Professor (2000-08), full salary support transitioning to honorary appointment after taking up GSK position (2005-08) (competitively awarded in national competition for excellence in research)
- Feindel Neuroimaging Lectureship (2009), McGill University
- Elected and renewed serially as a Fellow by Special Election, St. Edmund Hall, University of Oxford (1997- present)
- MRC (Canada) Clinician-Scientist Award (1990), competitive 5 year full salary and research support award for clinician-scientist career development
- Penfield-McNaughton Award (1990), awarded annually by the Montreal Neurological Institute to most outstanding leaving specialist trainees
- Foulkes Foundation Clinician Scientist Training Award (1982), nationally competitive full tuition award for non- clinical scientist to train in medicine
- National Science Foundation Pre-doctoral Fellowship (1979), research support and tuition costs for DPhil in Oxford
