Andreas Brunklaus MD

Professor Andreas Brunklaus is a Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow, and Honorary Professor at the School of Health and Wellbeing, College of Medical, Veterinary and Life Sciences, University of Glasgow. Following 2 years of voluntary work in Brussels and the Dominican Republic, he graduated from the Charité Medical School, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, with First Class Honours.

He trained in paediatric neurology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ and Great Ormond Street Hospital in London before completing his research fellowship and MD thesis on “Genotype – Phenotype Relationships in SCN1A Related Childhood Epilepsies” at the University of Glasgow, for which he was awarded the “Mac Keith Prize” by the British Paediatric Neurology Association for making a significant contribution to child neurology. Following specialist clinical training at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, he returned to Glasgow in 2015 as a consultant paediatric neurologist to develop a state-of-the-art clinical research programme for precision medicine in the epilepsies and was granted an NRS Career Researcher Fellowship in 2017.

Professor Brunklaus leads international research collaborations developing cutting-edge diagnostic tools in epilepsy genetics, has published widely in high-impact journals, and has written numerous book chapters. He is an international expert in SCN1A-related childhood epilepsies and Dravet syndrome, with frequent national and international speaking engagements. He has generated substantial grant income, building a portfolio of clinical studies, both commercial and investigator-initiated studies, and is the UK chief investigator for “SCN1A Horizons - A natural history study of SCN1A-related epilepsies in the United Kingdom”.