Paul Edison

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About Paul Edison

Prof. Edison is the Professor of Neuroscience and Clinical Professor in the Department of Brain Sciences in the Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College London and an honorary Professor at Cardiff University, Wales. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal BRAIN CONNECTIVITY, an associate editor for the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, and serves in the editorial boards of the Journal of Neuroimaging and Contrast Media & Molecular Imaging. He is also a Consultant at Hammersmith Hospital, London. Dr. Edison, after his clinical training (MD), did his MPhil and PhD at Imperial College London, and then completed his higher training in London Deanery and obtained his CCT from the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board. He then became a Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, Ireland and Fellow of Royal College of Physicians, UK. He has received prestigious MRC clinical research fellowship award, HEFCE Clinical Senior Lectureship Award, and research scholarships. His research is focused on neuroimaging with novel molecular probes using PET and magnetic resonance techniques for imaging pathophysiological changes associated with Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and other neurodegenerative diseases. He has extensive experience in PET and MR imaging in different neurodegenerative and neuroinflammatory conditions. His initial work evaluated one of the first amyloid imaging agent in Alzheimer’s disease at the MRC Cyclotron Unit, Imperial College London, Hammersmith Hospital, and has published seminal papers in the field. He has published in high impact journals such as Nature, Brain, Annals of Neurology, and Neurology, and has received grants from the Medical Research Council, NIHR/HEFCE, Alzheimer’s Society, Alzheimer’s Research UK, Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Foundation US, and other funders. He collaborates closely with Novo Nordisk, GE Healthcare, Novartis, Piramal Life Sciences, and Astra Zeneca. He has also received several best paper awards internationally. He is the chief investigator for several international and national multi-centre studies co-ordinating between USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. He leads the Imperial College Memory Research centre and is the Chief Investigator of several other imaging studies using PET and MRI, and heads multicentre studies evaluating novel treatment of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. He also runs a memory clinic at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust.