John NJ Reynolds

John Reynolds is a Professor in Neuroscience in the Department of Anatomy at University of Otago. John graduated in Medicine in 1994, practised medicine in Northland and then completed a PhD in Neuroscience at Otago in 2000. He has received an international Brain Research Young Investigator Award and a National Tertiary Teaching Award, and a Rutherford Discovery Fellowship from the Royal Society of NZ. John leads a research group studying the health and commercial application of neuroplasticity approaches to the treatment of neurological disorders. He leads a multidisciplinary team currently developing a drug-delivery platform for the treatment of Parkinson’s disease, brain cancer and epilepsy, and novel stimulation approaches for enhancing the recovery from stroke.