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Biography

I joined the Oxford neurology registrar rotation in 2020, and started my DPhil under the supervision of Dr AG Thompson and Professor MR Turner in 2022.

Training and qualifications

  • BSc 2013 Imperial College London
  • MBBS 2015 Imperial College London
  • MRCP 2018 Royal College of Physicians

David Lester

Clinical Research Fellow

DPhil key hypotheses

  • Clinical heterogeneity in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) reflects differences in underlying disease biology
  • These differences in disease biology are reflected in the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) proteome
  • Integrated analysis of the CSF proteome will allow separation of patients with ALS into distinct, biologically-relevant clusters linked to key aspects of clinical heterogeneity
  • Clusters can be used as a means to stratify patients to improve prediction of disease progression and, ultimately, response to more bespoke drug treatment