Maria Thom

Maria Thom is a Division of Neuropathology and Department of Clinical and Experimental Epilepsy, Institute of Neurology and National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, University College London. She is an Academic Neuropathologist with a diagnostic and research interest in epilepsy. Common epilepsy-related pathologies studied include hippocampal sclerosis and cortical dysplasias, utilising surgical and post-mortem tissue samples in the established Epilepsy Tissue Bank within the department. The core aims are to investigate disease biomarkers in tissue samples, that are either a cause or effect of seizures, that can be translated into clinical and diagnostic practice.