Volker Straub PhD

Professor Straub trained as a paediatric neurologist at the University of Düsseldorf and the University of Essen in Germany. He wrote his PhD thesis on Duchenne muscular dystrophy and worked as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Howard Hughes Medical Centre at the University of Iowa, USA. Within the University of Newcastle upon Tyne he holds the position of The Harold Macmillan Professor of Medicine and Professor of Neuromuscular Genetics.