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- Dr Wood is now based in the Stem Cell and Neurotherapies group at the University of Manchester, working with Professor Brian Bigger, where his research focusses on producing gene therapy treatments for neurological lysosomal storage disorders.
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Shaun currently holds the position of Research Fellow in Advanced Therapeutic Medicinal Products in the Institute for Regeneration and Repair (IRR) at the University of Edinburgh. Shaun was awarded a BSc (Honours) in Genetics from the University of Manchester in 20212, followed by a MRes in Translational Medicine in 2013.
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Shaun Wood — University of Edinburgh Research Explorer. DR....
- Shaun Wood - University of Edinburgh Research Explorer
Dr Wood's primary research interests lie in the use of gene therapy to treat rare inherited disorders. Currently he's based in the Stem Cell and Neurotherapies laboratory, at the University of Manchester, researching treatments for a form of inherited metabolic disease.
- Thompsons Solicitors Have Been Behind Me Since 2007
- Protection Provided by The Mod Was Completely Inadequate
- Job Involved Painting Aircraft and Motor Vehicles
- Colleague Who Did The Same Work Was Also Diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease
- Exposure to Toxins During The First Gulf War
Mr Wood said: “It has been a very long fight to get to this point from the day I was told back in the 1990s that I wasn’t entitled to legal aid. That was just the start. I never accepted that I wouldn’t be able to get justice and Thompsons Solicitors have been behind me since 2007 and enabled me to fight this to the end. “I come from a military fam...
Representing Mr Wood, Andrew McDonald from Thompsons Solicitors added: “After 18 years Mr Wood has finally been vindicated. “This is a groundbreaking decision which is a result of a tireless legal battle by Mr Wood and Thompsons Solicitors. “This is the first time there has been any adjudication of the link between organic solvents and this kind of...
Shaun, whose father served as a Lancaster Bomber Navigator in the Second World War, joined the military from school in 1975 signing up as a painter and finisher in the belief it would provide him with an interesting career, which would lead onto further employment opportunities after he was discharged. He worked in RAF sites across the UK and abroa...
Shaun said “It was always a case of Parkinsonism from the start, but being so young, it was difficult to make a clear diagnosis. It took a further seven years before MSA-P was clearly diagnosed”. One of his RAF colleagues who did the same work was also diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease at a similarly young age as Mr Wood. Convinced that his diagno...
At a five day hearing in Middlesbrough in April 2010 the level of Shaun’s exposure to toxins during the first Gulf War was shown to have been between ten and twenty times the recommended maximum exposure levels. The Ministry of Defence accepted it had breached its duty of care in exposing Shaun to the toxins and by failing to provide him with any a...
I am based in the Stem Cell and Neurotherapies group at the University of Manchester. Our research focuses on producing gene therapy treatments for neurological lysosomal storage...
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Shaun is currently a DPhil student, funded by Fight for Sight UK, under the supervision of Professor Robert MacLaren in the Nuffield Laboratory of Ophthalmology. His research focuses on the potential treatment of a broad class of ocular phenotypes called Bestrophinopathies and encompasses a range of molecular, in vitro and in vivo techniques.
