Henry Houlden is Professor of Neurology and Neurogenetics at University College London and is an international leader in the field of neurology and genetics. He is renowned for his work on repeat expansion disorders, genetic risk factors and the identification of novel disease genes.
Using next-generation sequencing he has been central to the identification of major genes for ataxia, hereditary spastic paraplegia, Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease and parkinsonism.
His role in the 100,000 Genomes Project has been instrumental, coordinating probably the world’s largest cohorts of neurological disease genomes and representing all rare diseases on the Genomics England board. He is now leading the development of long-read DNA and RNA sequencing in research and diagnostics that will transform the management of all inherited disorders.