Rosalind Mary Ridley, MA cantab, PhD london, ScD Cambridge

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Rosalind Ridley was born in Coventry in 1949 and, after attending Barr's Hill School from 1962 - 1968, she read Natural Sciences at Newnham College, Cambridge from 1968-71 majoring in Psychology. She studied for her PhD at the Institute of Psychiatry, London under the supervision of Prof George Ettlinger and in 1977 she joined the Medical Research Council’s Scientific Staff and worked in the Division of Psychiatry, Clinical Research Centre, Northwick Park Hospital under the direction of Dr Timothy Crow until 1994. She then worked in the Department of Psychology, Cambridge as Head of the Medical Research Council’s external scientific staff team of Comparative Psychology until she retired in 2005. Her research interests centred around developing pharmacological and tissue transplantation treatments for neurological disorders including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s disease and stroke. She also worked on the aetiology and pathogenesis of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (prion disease).
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