Adina Michael-Titus is Professor of Neuroscience at Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London. 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 illustrate the significant potential of neuroactive lipids such as the long-chain omega-3 fatty acids, in the management of neurotrauma.
Professor Michael-Titus is the President Elect of the International Society for the Study of Fatty Acids and Lipids.