Biography
Dr David Hunt is a Wellcome Trust Senior Clinical Fellow and Consultant Neurologist based in Edinburgh University who leads clinics and research in the field of brain inflammation. He trained in medicine at Cambridge, London and Basel. His PhD research at Cambridge University was in the field of developmental neuroscience and neuroinflammation. In 2009 he moved to Edinburgh where he completed his neurological training and established a Wellcome Trust-funded laboratory to study the molecular basis of neuroinflammatory diseases. David’s research programme at the UK DRI aim to find ways to target inflammation to stop neurodegeneration, with particular focus on the interplay between interferon, nucleases and microvascular brain disease. This research programme links up clinics, discovery science and clinical trials.
Hunt Lab
Explore the work of the Hunt Lab, Investigating how innate immune activation causes damage to the microvasculature of the brain
