Professor William Gray

Professor Gray graduated in Medicine from University College Cork, Ireland, where he also obtained his MD in motor nerve transplantation. His post-doctoral research was spent in Southampton and Bonn where he developed an interest in adult neural stem cells. He established a research group on adult neurogenesis in Southampton and was appointed to the University Chair of Neurosurgery in 2006. He moved to the Chair of Functional Neurosurgery in Cardiff in 2011, where he established the Brain Repair And Intracranial Neurotherapeutics (BRAIN) Biomedical Research Unit, which he also directs.

His clinical interests are in epilepsy surgery and cell and gene delivery to human brain for repair. His research group’s work extends from lab-based science studying stem cells, to cognitive behavioural and imaging studies in patients, and neural stem cell transplantation and device development for brain repair in Huntington’s Disease and epilepsy.

He is particularly interested in the effects of the innate immune system on endogenous and transplanted neural stem cells, and developing new delivery devices for cell and gene therapies in patients.