Angela Vincent MBBS (Hon PhD Bergen), FRCPath, FMedSci, FRS

Angela Vincent is an Emeritus Professor of Neuroimmunology at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College. She co-founded with Prof John Newsom-Davis (Action Research Chair of Clinical Neurology 1987-1998) the Neurosciences Group at the Royal Free Hospital in London before they moved to the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in 1988.

From 1992 until 2016, she held an Honorary Consultant position in Immunology and ran the Clinical Neuroimmunology service. Under the leadership of Drs Sarosh Irani and Patrick Waters, this continues to be an international referral center for the measurement of antibodies in neurological diseases (see Autoimmune Neurology).

Angela was formerly Head of the Department of Clinical Neurology (2005-2008), President of the International Society of Neuroimmunology, and an Associate Editor of Brain (2004-2013). She was elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2003 and the Royal Society in 2011. In 2018 she was awarded the Klaus Joachim Zülch Prize with J. Dalmau and J. Posner. She is now an Emeritus Professor at Oxford and also has honorary positions at University College and King’s College London.