Dr. Reiss Pal

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

  • UK Dementia Research Institute
  • Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic
  • Centre for Clinical Brain Sciences

Contact details

Address

Street

UKDRI, Chancellor's Building
49 Little France Crescent

City
Edinburgh
Post code
EH16 4SB

Background

Reiss joined the UKDRI in 2024 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow and is based in the lab of Dr. Bhuvaneish Selvaraj & UKDRI Director/CEO Prof. Siddharthan Chandran. Reiss is using human patient stem cell models (iPSCs) to culture neuron and glia cells for assessing Motor Neurone Disease pathophysiology. Reiss is also using these cells to screen candidate drugs for clinical trial (MND-SMART).    

Prior to joining Reiss worked as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Cambridge. At Cambridge, Reiss was a research lead in Dr. Caroline Williams-Gray & Prof. Roger Barker's lab, and contributed towards several Parkinson's Disease clinical trials. These trials aimed to investigate peripheral versus central immune function as drivers of proteinopathy and disease progression in Parkinson’s disease. 

Qualifications

Reiss received a Ph.D. in Neuroimmunology from the Roslin Institute & College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, an M.Sc. & DIC in Immunology from Imperial College London, and a B.Sc. (Hons) in Biomedical Science from Keele University.