Rate My Professor Angela Vincent

Angela Vincent is Emeritus Professor of Neuroimmunology at the University of Oxford and an Emeritus Fellow of Somerville College. She holds an MBBS and an honorary PhD from Bergen, and is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists, the Academy of Medical Sciences, and the Royal Society. She co-founded the Neurosciences Group with Professor John Newsom-Davis at the Royal Free Hospital in London before the group moved to the Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine in Oxford in 1988. From 1992 until 2016 she held an honorary consultant position in immunology and ran the Clinical Neuroimmunology service, which continues as an international referral centre under subsequent leadership. She previously served as Head of the Department of Clinical Neurology at Oxford from 2005 to 2008, as President of the International Society of Neuroimmunology, and as Associate Editor of the journal Brain from 2004 to 2013. She has received numerous honours, including election to the Academy of Medical Sciences in 2003 and the Royal Society in 2011, and the Klaus Joachim Zülch Prize in 2018 shared with J. Dalmau and J. Posner. She maintains honorary positions at University College London and King’s College London and continues collaborative research on myasthenia gravis and related disorders.

Her major research contributions centre on autoantibody-mediated disorders of ion channels and receptors in the nervous system. These include the identification of maternal antibodies causing rare neuromuscular conditions and their potential role in neurodevelopmental disorders, the characterisation of a form of myasthenia gravis linked to MuSK antibodies, and the recognition that certain central nervous system disorders involving memory loss, seizures, movement disorders, and psychiatric features can result from antibodies targeting receptors or associated proteins. She helped develop diagnostic assays for pathogenic antibodies and established model systems to study disease mechanisms. She now collaborates with Professor David Beeson on neuromuscular disorders within the Nuffield Department of Clinical Neurosciences.