Giles Hardingham, Professor of Pharmacology at the University of Edinburgh, is one of the UK’s outstanding molecular neuroscientists. His work focuses on gene regulation and signal transduction in neurons and how this impacts on their function and fate. This fundamental work has broad implications for neurological disorders, including stroke and Huntington’s and Alzheimer's diseases. |Professor Hardingham led Edinburgh University’s successful bid to host a centre of the £250M UK Dementia Research Institute, and his current role as a UK DRI Associate Director (leading the Edinburgh Centre) places him at the heart of strategic efforts to accelerate and coordinate research into neurodegenerative diseases.