Award for Professor Lees
29 November 2010
Professor Andrew Lees (Director of the Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies) has been elected as a foreign honorary member to the Academia Nacional de Medicina in Rio de Janeiro.
The Academia was founded in 1822 with the support
of Emperor Dom Pedro segundo and is modelled on the Academie Francaise
with only 100 titular members. The only two previous British
neurologists to receive this honour were Lord Walton, Dr MacDonald
Critchley. Professor Lees delivered a 15 minute presentation on
Parkinsons disease in Portuguese at the Academia in Rio de Janeiro on
October 22nd and was presented with a commemorative gold medal.
Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies
The Reta Lila Weston Institute of Neurological Studies
was founded in 1977 through a generous bequest from the Reta Lila
Weston Trust for Medical Research, with the aim of furthering knowledge
about stroke and neurodegenerative disorders.
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