Rickie Patani is a Neurologist and Cell Biologist. He trained in Neurology in the UK including in UCL Queen Square and Addenbrooke’s, Cambridge. He obtained a PhD and post-doctoral experience in Cambridge University and set up his lab at UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology in 2013. He moved to the Francis Crick Institute in 2017. In 2018, Rickie was elected Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (UK). He was appointed full Professor at UCL in 2019. Rickie recently left his role as a Senior Group Leader at the Francis Crick Institute as he was appointed Director of the Neurobiology Programme at NUS Life Sciences Institute and Professor of Neuroscience at NUS in the Departments of Medicine and Anatomy.

Rickie’s Lab is passionately committed to understanding neurodegenerative disorders in order to uncover new therapies. His team work primarily on the themes of RNA metabolism and cellular autonomy in ALS/FTD using human induced pluripotent stem cell models as a primary discovery platform.