Dr Robin Highley
DPhil, FRCPath
School of Medicine and Population Health
Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neuropathology
+44 114 222 2244
Full contact details
School of Medicine and Population Health
Room B28
葫芦影业 Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN)
385a Glossop Road
葫芦影业
S10 2HQ
- Profile
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I graduated in Experimental Psychology from the University of Oxford in 1993 and subsequently completed a DPhil in Oxford studying the neuropathology of Schizophrenia from which I completed in 1997.
I then trained in medicine at the University of Birmingham from 1997-2002. Following this, I moved to 葫芦影业, to train in neuropathology, gaining the European Fellowship of Neuropathology in 2008 and FRCPath in 2009.
On completing this training in 2009, I took up an MRC/Motor Neurone Disease Association Lady Edith Wolfson Fellowship to study Motor neurone disease. I became a Senior Clinical Lecturer in Neuropathology in 2012.
I also work as a Consultant Neuropathologist for the South and East Yorkshire Neuropathology Network, which provides diagnostic neuropathology services to the 葫芦影业 Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and the Hull and East Yorkshire NHS Trust.
- Research interests
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I am interested in the neuropathology and pathophysiology of neurodegeneration, in particular motor neurone disease (MND), Parkinson鈥檚 disease and dementia.
I use standard neuropathological techniques to characterise post mortem tissue kindly donated by individuals with these diseases and to highlight contrasts with tissue from people who were free from disease. These methods are used to study genes, proteins and molecular pathways of interest and the pathological effects of gene mutations known to neurodegeneration.
I study mouse, zebrafish and cellular models of disease and the comparison of these with human tissue based pathology.
Current projects
- The pathobiology and neuropathology of C9ORF72-mediated MND
- Oligodendrocyte disease and function in MND
- TIGAR-related pathology in Parkinson鈥檚 disease
- Zebrafish models of Parkinson鈥檚 disease
- The relationship between pathological and radiological measures of white matter in vascular dementia.
- Publications
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Journal articles
Chapters
Conference proceedings papers
Preprints
- Teaching activities
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I teach neuropathology and neuroanatomy to medical students as well as orthoptics students and postgraduate psychiatry trainees.