Peter Goadsby is an Australian neuroscientist who is Director of the National Institute for Health Research - Wellcome Trust King's Clinical Research Facility and Professor of Neurology at King's College London.
14 Facts About Peter Goadsby
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Peter Goadsby's research has focused particularly on the mechanism and alleviation of migraine and cluster headaches.
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Peter Goadsby attended a secondary school that did not have high academic ambitions for the pupils.
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Peter Goadsby was interested in politics from a young age, and was planning to study economics at university.
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Peter Goadsby's work has especially addressed the causes of migraine and cluster headaches.
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Peter Goadsby's research led him to hypothesise that migraine might not be a vascular disease, as was then accepted, or psychosomatic and caused by stress.
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Peter Goadsby was part of a group that in a clinical trial over six months showed, for the first time, that a monoclonal antibody could significantly reduce frequency and effects of migraine.
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Peter Goadsby subsequently trained, worked and studied with Don Reis at Cornell, USA; Jacques Seylaz at Universite VII, Paris, and post-graduate neurology training at the Institute of Neurology, London with C David Marsden, Andrew Lees, Anita Harding and W Ian McDonald.
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Peter Goadsby joined the University of New South Wales and became a consultant neurologist at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney.
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Peter Goadsby was later appointed a Wellcome Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Neurology and Professor of Clinical Neurology and Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London until 2007.
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Peter Goadsby is an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, UK and Professor of Neurology, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Peter Goadsby was awarded with the inaugural Lance Gold medal and Oration at the first Lance-Goadsby annual Mind, Migraine, Movement and More Symposium during 2018, organised by Tissa Wijeratne and team in Australia.
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Peter Goadsby was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2022.
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Peter Goadsby is the author or co-author of many scientific publications and several books and book chapters.