Professor Patrick Lewis

Dr Lewis is a Professor of Neuroscience at the Royal Veterinary College, University of London. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Manchester, including a placement year studying the molecular mechanisms underlying Alzheimer’s disease at the Mayo Clinic in Florida, before completing graduate studies at the Medical Research Council Prion Unit at the UCL Institute of
Neurology.

From 2005 until 2007 Dr Lewis worked at the National Institute on Aging in Bethesda, Maryland, investigating the impact of mutations in the LRRK2 gene on enzymatic and cellular function in Parkinson’s disease before returning to Britain to establish his own group at the UCL Institute of Neurology. In 2013 he moved to the University of Reading School of Pharmacy as an Associate Professor, and in 2020 he took up a Chair in Neuroscience at the Royal Veterinary College where his group continue to investigate LRRK2 and other inherited forms of Parkinson’s disease funded by the Michael J. Fox Foundation, the Royal Society, the Aligning Science Across Parkinson’s Research Network and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.