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Name Professor Peter Roberts
Job title Emeritus Professor
Department School of Physiology, Pharmacology & Neuroscience University of Bristol
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Qualifications Ph.D.(Bristol), D.Sc.(Dund.)
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Membership of professional bodies British Pharmacological Society
Biochemical Society
Society for Neuroscience
International Society for Neurochemistry
British Neuroscience Association
Keywords neurodegenerative diseases
drugs and the brain
drugs
Areas of expertise Neuropharmacologist with 30 years experience of investigating drugs affecting neurotransmission in the brain.

Particular interest is how dysfunction of neurotransmission, as in stroke, epilepsy etc. leads to neurodegeneration and the potential for pharmacological intervention in these processes.
Media experience Media-trained (television/radio)