Professor Adina Michael-Titus DSc

Adina Michael-Titus is Professor of Neuroscience at Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, at Queen Mary University of London. She leads the Neurotrauma and Neurodegeneration Group in the Centre for Neuroscience and Trauma, and teaches neuropharmacology at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Adina Michael-Titus carried out her doctoral studies in France, at the University of Rouen and University of Paris, and obtained her doctorate in 1988. She became a Lecturer in 1990, and was awarded the chair of Neuroscience in 2010. She started her career with studies on enkephalins and tachykinins, and the development of novel analgesic agents. In the last decade her research has focused on the concept of neuroprotection in traumatic injury to the nervous system, in particular spinal cord and brain injury. Recent studies in her group illustrate the significant therapeutic potential of a particular type of neuroactive lipids, the omega-3 fatty acids, in neurotrauma.