Adina T. Michael-Titus

Adina Michael-Titus is Professor of Neuroscience at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. She is a neuroscientist and pharmacologist and completed her doctoral and post-doctoral studies in France, in Rouen and Paris, and was soon thereafter appointed Lecturer in Neuroscience in London, where she established her own group. She is the Lead of the Centre for Neuroscience, Surgery and Trauma in the Blizard Institute. Professor Michael-Titus is a Fellow of the British Pharmacological Society and spent a period of work early in her career in drug discovery in the pharmaceutical industry. In the last two decades her research has been focused on neuroprotective and neurorepair strategies in traumatic spinal cord injury and brain injury. Studies in her group have investigated the importance of various specialised lipids in neuroprotection and neurorepair. Her work has provided substantial new insights and evidence regarding the unique potential of long-chain omega-3 fatty acids in the treatment of neurotrauma, and also as part of preventive strategies. Professor Michael-Titus is the President of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids.