Biography
Dr Philip Weston is an academic neurologist and joined the UK DRI as an Emerging Leader in 2023 under the sponsorship of Prof Nick Fox. Dr Weston completed undergraduate medical training at the University of Sheffield, including an intercalated BMedSci in cognitive neuroscience, during which he gained his first experience of neuroimaging research. He did his postgraduate clincal training in London and undertook a PhD at UCL on imaging and non-imaging biomarkers of early neurodegeneration in familial Alzheimer’s disease. In 2018 he was named as a Rising Star of Dementia Research by the Alzheimer’s Society. Following completion of his higher specialist clinical training, Dr Weston returned to UCL after being awarded a Clinical Research Career Development Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust.
Weston Lab
Explore the work of the Weston Lab, using advanced forms of MRI and PET brain scanning to identify and track the earliest signs of brain cell loss
