Johnathan Cooper-Knock

Johnathan Cooper-Knock studied medicine at the University of Oxford where he obtained a 1st Class Honours degree in Physiological Sciences and completed a degree in Clinical Medicine graduating in 2006. During his undergraduate studies Johnathan completed a research project under the supervision of Professor Kevin Talbot investigating clinical subtypes of MND.

In 2008 Johnathan was awarded a NIHR Academic Clinical Fellowship in Sheffield under the supervision of Professor Pamela Shaw. He continued research initially as a Peake Start-Up fellow before being awarded a Lady Edith Wolfson Clinical Research Training Fellowship funded by the MNDA/MRC which facilitated the award of a PhD by publication in 2015.

During Johnathan’s PhD he focused on characterisation of a novel genetic variant. More recently he has gained proficiency in genetics and is now leading investigation of the non-coding genome in the largest ever disease-specific whole genome sequencing project which is focused on ALS (https://www.projectmine.com/). In 2017 Johnathan was awarded the European Network for Cure of ALS (ENCALS) Young Investigator Award.