Dr Joseph Symonds

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Dr Joseph Symonds is a Senior Clinical Research Fellow at the School of Health & Wellbeing and an Honorary Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow. His current position is funded by a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Chief Scientists Office (CSO). He is the Chief Investigator for the EPI-SCOT project a Scotland-wide proepective epidemiological study of childhood-onset epilepsies which will begin recruiting from June 2024.

Dr Symonds graduated in medicine from the University of Dundee in 2008. He has a Bachelor's degree in International Health from the University of Leeds (2007) and a PhD from the University of Glasgow (2019).

Dr Symonds' research aims to answer clinically meaningful questions, with the overall objective of improving outcomes for children affected by neurological conditions. Thanks to recent advances in genetic testing, and the potential for gene-directed therapies, paediatric neurology now finds itself in an exciting era. He has a specific interest in epilepsies associated with the SMC1A, GNAO1, SCN1A, and PRRT2 genes.

Contact details:

Joseph.Symonds@glasgow.ac.uk

 

Administrator: Ms Isla Birnie

Email: Isla.Birnie@glasgow.ac.uk

 

Postal address:

Level 2, School of Health & Wellbeing 

Clarice Pears Building

90 Byres Road

G12 8TB

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