Dr. Alex Clark is a Lecturer in Neuroscience at Queen Mary University London. He earned an MSc degree in Neuroscience from University of Nottingham, and a PhD from University College London, supervised by Prof. Martin Koltzenburg. He undertook a post-doctoral position at University of Oxford in Prof. David Bennett’s lab, and subsequently earned a Research Fellowship as well as several other independent grants including the EFIC-GRUNENTHAL grant. His academic research interests are focussed on inherited painful channelopathies and demyelinating neuropathies. He has extensive experience at using iPSCs to model these neurological conditions and was the first to develop myelinating cocultures in human iPSC-derived neurons.