Nerve Central (Kiernan Lab)

Nerve Central (Kiernan Lab) This 17-strong team of clinicians, scientists, biomedical engineers and research students has a multi-focussed approach to neurological disease.

The Kiernan Group was established in 2001, with research labs based at NeuRA, linked to the Prince of Wales Clinical School UNSW and The Institute of Neurological Sciences, Prince of Wales Hospital. The group works in close collaboration with Professor David Burke at the University of Sydney (combined ARC Discovery grant) and Professor Hugh Bostock FRS at The Institute of Neurology, Queen Square, London UK (combined fellowships and program grant collaborations). Current projects are directed to:

- motor neurone disease: establishing the site of onset and mechanisms of progression

-spinal cord injury: prevention of neurological damage following injury
multiple sclerosis, demyelinating neuropathy, neuromuscular disease: delineating mechanisms of fatigue

-neurotoxicity: prevention of nerve damage associated with chemotherapies used in the treatment of cancer

-understanding the development of neurological symptoms associated with nerve crush and ischaemia

-epilepsy and pain-related states: improving the effects of anticonvulsant therapies in treatment

-understanding the process of plasticity of the nervous system in stroke patients and thereby finding ways to improve stroke outcome

We are also conducting clinical trials aimed at neuroprotective and physical therapies in neurological diseases. Our research is intrinsically linked to the provision of local clinical services, particularly the multidisciplinary motor neurone disease clinic; the hereditary nerve and muscle clinics run through Prince of Wales Hospitals; neurological consultation and clinical neurophysiological investigations.

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Doctors Michelle Farrar, Cindy Lin, and William Huynh featured in highlights from the 2019 Australian and New Zealand as...
29/06/2019

Doctors Michelle Farrar, Cindy Lin, and William Huynh featured in highlights from the 2019 Australian and New Zealand association of neurologists annual conference.

07/06/2019

Prof Matthew Kiernan and his Sydney Forefront MND group.

07/06/2019

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Randwick, NSW
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