05/04/13….Medic recognised for breakthrough in brain research

A doctor from Worminghall, near Thame, along with his team, has been recognised for a breakthrough in brain research that could potentially improve outcomes for millions of stroke victims in the future.

Professor Alastair Buchan, Head of the Medical Sciences Division and Dean of the Medical School at Oxford University, led the work on explaining how the brain is able to protect itself from damage that occurs in stroke.

The Oxford University researchers, including Professor Buchan’s collaborators in Calgary, Germany and Athens, hope that harnessing this inbuilt biological mechanism, identified in rats, could help in treating stroke and preventing other neurodegenerative diseases in the future.

In an interview with Science Daily, Professor Buchan said: “We have shown for the first time that the brain has mechanisms that it can use to protect itself and keep brain cells alive.”

Read the full article in Science Daily HERE