Brief Biography

Dr. Lawrence Moon is a Lecturer and Principal Investigator at the Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases @ King’s College, London (University of London).

He has received funding from the Research Councils’ UK, the British Pharmacological Society, the Medical Research Council, the BBSRC, the Royal Society, and King’s College, London.

His research aims to identify methods for promoting axon growth and recovery of function after spinal cord injury and stroke.

2010 to date: Lecturer, Department of Pharmacology & Principal Investigator, Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London.

2005 - 2010: Research Councils UK Academic Fellow.Wolfson Centre for Age-Related Diseases, King's College London.

2001 - 2005: Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami. Postdoctoral researcher in lab of Professor Mary Bartlett Bunge. Associate member of Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation’s International Research Consortium.

1997 - 2001: Queens’ College, University of Cambridge. MRC Centre for Brain Repair. Ph.D., Laboratory of Prof. James Fawcett.

1993 - 1997: Top First, B.A. (Hons), Scholar, Jesus College, University of Oxford. Psychology, Physiology and Philosophy.

1992 - 1993: Royal Corps of Signals, British Army.