I am Senior Lecturer in Neurosurgery and a Consultant Neurosurgeon based at King’s College Hospital. My research includes investigating the use of advanced therapeutics for regeneration and repair following Traumatic Brain Injury and Spinal Cord Injury. This includes endogenous and transplanted stem cells and the use of gene therapy, including viral vector delivered treatments, in models of TBI and SCI.

I am establishing a translational pathway for the use of advanced gene therapies for neurological disease, including collaborations to translate the use of vector therapy in first-in-human studies. I also use primary live human neural tissue for research and aim to foster broader collaborations within IoPPN. Overall, I am developing my translational research programme in advanced therapeutics for neurological disease and aim to translate this to neurosurgical patients at King’s College.

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Key publications:

• Pringle et al., 2021. Sonic Hedgehog signalling promotes perilesion cell proliferation and functional improvement following Cortical Contusion Injury. Neurotrauma Reports
• Jamjoon et al., 2018) A prospective, multi-centre study of external ventricular drainage-related infections in the United Kingdom and Ireland. J. Neurol. Neurosurg. Psychiatry 
• Spurlock, Ahmed et al., 2017. Amelioration of cognitive deficits due to penetrating brain injury after transplantation and neuronal differentiation of human neural stem cells. J. Neurotrauma
• Ahmed AI et. al., 2012. Endogenous GFAP positive neural stem/progenitor cells in the postnatal mouse cortex are activated following Traumatic Brain Injury. J. Neurotrauma 

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Key collaborators:

• Professor Elizabeth Bradbury, King's College London 
• Professor James Phillips, University College London 
• Professor Molly Stevens, Imperial College London 
• Dr Phillipa Warren, King's College London