David B. Parkinson

David Parkinson studied for his PhD at the MRC Clinical Sciences Centre in London before a fellowship at the CRUK London Research Institute. He then had a second post-doc in the lab of Profs Rhona Mirsky and Kristjan Jessen at UCL where he began to work on developmental regulation of myelination in the PNS. In 2007, he moved to the Peninsula Medical School in Plymouth and started his own lab to continue his research on Schwann cell biology. Current research interests in the lab include the roles of inhibitory regulators of myelination, such as Sox2, the tumour suppressor Merlin and regulation of PNS repair through Hippo signalling and the biology of human schwannoma tumours.