Pedro Machado MD, PhD

Pedro Machado is an Honorary Consultant in Rheumatology and Muscle Diseases at University College Hospital (UCH) and the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery (NHNN). He is also a NIHR Post Doctoral Clinical Fellow at the University College London (UCL) MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases. Dr Machado runs both specialist spondyloarthritis (Rheumatology Department) and myopathy (Neuromuscular Department) clinics.

His research interests include the investigation of new therapeutic strategies and the assessment and prediction of outcomes in rheumatic diseases, with a focus on muscle diseases and axial spondyloarthritis. His published research work includes the development and validation of the Ankylosing Spondylitis Disease Activity Score (ASDAS), the study of the relationship between MRI inflammation, MRI fat deposition and progression of structural damage in axial spondyloarthritis (axSpA), the validation of MRI as a biomarker in muscle diseases, and the development of a new therapeutic strategy targeting protein homeostasis in Inclusion Body Myositis (IBM).