Keith Muir MD, FRCP

Professor Keith Muir is SINAPSE Chair of Clinical Imaging (Stroke and Brain imaging) and a consultant neurologist at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in Glasgow.

His main scientific interests include the application of advanced brain imaging to clinical trials as a tool for translational research, and he has led trials of thrombolysis (ATTEST, ATTEST-2, WAKE-UP), thrombectomy (co-chief investigator of PISTE trial), physiological management (SELESTIAL), stem cell therapy (PISCES 1 and 2, the first use of human neural stem cells in clinical studies), and novel imaging methods (PRACTISE).

His work is undertaken predominantly in the South Glasgow Acute Stroke Service which has the highest rates of IV thrombolytic therapy in the UK and in the top 10 in Europe.