Peter Kennedy

Department of Neurology,Glasgow University, United Kingdom

Peter Kennedy

Academic positions:
- Burton Chair of Neurology
- Head of the Division of Clinical Neurosciences
- Honorary Consultant Neurologist, Institute of Neurological Sciences, Southern General Hospital

Any industry positions (last five years):
None declared

Research interests:
The main focus of Dr Kennedy's laboratory for the last 10 years has been on the mechanisms which determine Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) latency. His group has defined unambiguously the cellular location of latent VZV in human ganglia (neuronal cells) and has also carried out a major study of VZV gene expression during ganglionic latency. His group have also studied animal models of VZV latency with international colleagues. They are currently focussing our attention on viral factors that may determine the development of post-herpetic neuralgia and have been working with Prof J. Breuer in London, and with Prof P. Ghazal in SCGTI in Edinburgh on long oligonuceotide VZV microarrays to look at the transcriptional profiles of different patient's VZV isolates.

For many years he has also researched the neuropathogenesis of human African trypansomiasis, also known as sleeping sickness, primarily in a mouse model of the disease, but also more recently in human patients in Uganda.

Any other information:
Dr Kennedy is President of the International Society for Neurovirology and Chairman of the Scientist Panel on Infections including AIDS of the European Federation of Neurological Societies. He is a fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences (1998) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1992).

Any competing interests declared are displayed with individual evaluations.

Section Head: Neurological Disorders > Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System (since 16 November 2005)

Peter Kennedy is a Section Head for Infectious Diseases of the Nervous System, part of the NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS Faculty. The role of a Section Head is to work with their Co-Section Head(s) to divide the Section (sub-specialty area) into its component areas of research, nominate leaders in those areas as Faculty Members, and offer ongoing oversight of the content within their Section. They are not asked to evaluate articles, although we do, of course, welcome them.

Links

http://www.gla.ac.uk/clinicalneuroscience/staffkennedy.html