Geoffrey Raisman

Professor Geoffrey (Geoff) Raisman FRS (born 28 June 1939) is a British neuroscientist.^[1]

Personal life

He was born in Leeds and now resides in London. His father was a Jewish man who was originally from Lithuania. Raisman is not religious.^[2] He attended Roundhay Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford.^[3]

He is chair of neural regeneration at University College London's Institute of Neurology.^[4]^[5] In 2014, his team claimed to have regrown nerve cells where they had been severed, restoring the damaged spinal cord of the Polish paraplegic Darek Fidyka.^[6]

Fellows of the Royal Society elected in 2001

Fellows	David Attwell David Baulcombe John Beddington Tim Berners-Lee Robert J. Birgeneau J. Richard Bond Hugh Bostock Keith Burnett Paul Callaghan Graham Collingridge James F. Crow Richard Dawkins Roger Ekins Henry Elderfield Anthony G. Evans Brian Eyre Peter Gluckman Charles Godfray Brigid Hogan John Hunt Frances Kirwan Shrinivas Kulkarni Andrew Leslie Michael Levitt Robin Lovell-Badge Paul Madden Mike Paterson Bruce Ponder Geoffrey Raisman Allan Sandage Dale Sanders David Schindler George M. Sheldrick Sheila Sherlock Thomas Simpson Adrian Smith Mandyam Veerambudi Srinivasan Ian Stewart Roger Tanner Marc Tessier-Lavigne Nicholas Tonks W. G. Unruh Bryan Webber Alex Wilkie

Honorary	Patrick Moore

Foreign	Alexei Abrikosov Alan Fowler Clara Franzini-Armstrong Ahmed Zewail

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 78289418 LCCN: nb2003012986

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