Associate Professor John Reynolds
Dr John Reynolds is an Associate Professor in Neuroscience and Medicine at the University of Otago, and is Deputy Director of the university’s Brain Health Research Centre. Dr Reynolds’ research looks at the normal function of the basal ganglia and cortex of the brain and how this is altered in Parkinson’s disease and stroke. He is a former Chapman Fellow of the Neurological Foundation of New Zealand and is currently the Chair of the Foundation’s Scientific Advisory Committee. He received an international Brain Research Young Investigator Award (2004) for his work on rare brain cells which produce the neurochemical acetylcholine. He received a University of Otago Early Career Award for Distinction in Research (2005). Associate Professor Reynolds has just received an inaugural Rutherford Discovery Fellowship to undertake applied research into stroke and epilepsy.