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Tony Schapira is a Professor of Neurology at the UCL Institute of Neurology and a Consultant Neurologist at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery. His undergraduate training was at Westminster Medical School, and he completed his postgraduate training in Clinical Neurosciences. Schapira has held the position of Vice Dean at the University College London Medical School and served as a Visiting Professor at Harvard and Yale. He is a Co-Editor Chief of the European Journal of Neurology and has been active on the editorial boards of multiple neurology and neuroscience journals. Elected a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences in 1999, Schapira's research focuses primarily on neurodegeneration, particularly the molecular pathogenesis of Parkinson's disease (PD) and the development of drugs that slow the progress of the disease. His expertise includes mitochondrial biology and the identification of mitochondrial abnormalities linked to the pathology of PD. Schapira has led significant clinical research initiatives, including clinical trials for novel symptomatic treatments and neuroprotection strategies for PD, and is currently investigating the clinical phenotype of patients at risk of developing PD due to glucocerebrosidase mutations.