Geoffrey Raisman

Professor Geoffrey (Geoff) Raisman FRS (born 28 June 1939) is a British neuroscientist.

Personal life

He was born in Leeds and now resides in London. His father was a Jewish man who was originally from Lithuania. Raisman is not religious.^[1] He attended Roundhay Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford.^[2]

Career

He is chair of neural regeneration at University College London's Institute of Neurology.^[3][4] In 2014, his team claimed to have regrown nerve cells where they had been severed, restoring the damaged spinal cord of the Polish paraplegic Darek Fidyka.^[5]

External links

• http://www.nichollsfoundationhullander.org/professor-geoffrey-raisman/

References

• RAISMAN, Prof. Geoffrey, Who's Who 2015, A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014