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Prof Suvankar Pal

Co-Lead Investigator of MND-SMART
Clinical Neurologist
University of Edinburgh

Suvankar Pal is Professor of Neurodegenerative Disorders and Clinical Trials and Honorary Consultant Neurologist.  He is co-lead investigator of the UK wide innovative multi-arm multi-stage MND-SMART trial, the Scottish Motor Neuron Disease Register (CARE-MND), a Deputy Director at the Anne Rowling Regenerative Neurology Clinic, a UK Dementia Research Institute Co-Investigator and Clinical Lead for Neurology at NHS Forth Valley. 

His clinical and research interests are focused on improving outcomes for people with neurodegenerative disorders, including accelerating early and accurate diagnoses, evaluating atypical presentations, leading population-based disease registries for longitudinal deep clinical phenotyping, digital and wet lab biomarker development, and delivery of innovative clinical trials. 

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