Clinical Professor Neville Knuckey is the Head of Stroke Research at the Perron Institute. After completing medicine at UWA, he then trained in Neurosurgery in Western Australia and completed Neurosurgical Fellowships at The Johns Hopkins and Brown University in the USA. Clinical Professor Knuckey also held an Associate Professor role at Brown University for 10 years where his principle clinical interest was neurovascular surgery and laboratory research focused on ischaemic neuronal cell death and potential neuroprotective therapeutic interventions.
When returning to Perth in 1995, he held the position as the Head of the Department of Neurosurgery for twenty years, and received a Doctorate of Medicine, becoming a Clinical Professor in 2003. At the same time, Clinical Professor Knuckey established the Experimental Stroke Research group at the Perron Institute to continue research into neuronal death and neuroprotection. This research has led to the discovery of a class of neuroprotective peptide, which are being developed into neurotherapeutics via the ASX listed company Argenica Therapeutics to reduce brain injury after stroke, and other acute and chronic neurological disorders.

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