Simon Lovestone

Biography

Simon Lovestone is Professor of Old Age Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, King's College London and Director of the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health at the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry.

He studied Microbiology at Sheffield University and then Medicine at Southampton University and has continued to practice both medicine and molecular science ever since. After working as a junior doctor in medicine and in health care of the elderly he trained in Psychiatry and then obtained a Wellcome Trust fellowship to study the molecular relationship between plaques and tangles in Alzheimer's disease. He has an MPhil in Psychiatry for his research, whilst a trainee psychiatrist, on the mental health of new fathers and a PhD in biochemistry resulting from his Wellcome Trust fellowship. In addition to heading a multi-disciplinary Old Age Psychiatry clinical team he has clinical interests in the dementias and in genetic counselling.

He is also the Deputy Director of the MRC Centre for Neurodegeneration Research, Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Alzheimer's Research Trust and has been a member of the Wellcome Trust Neurosciences panel and part of the MRC College of experts.