Professor Volker Straub is the Director of the John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre and Deputy Dean for Newcastle University’s Translational and Clinical Research Institute.
He is a Consultant in Neuromuscular Genetics and an NIHR Senior Investigator. Volker has a long-standing interest in disease mechanisms of genetic muscle diseases, with activities involving diagnostics and clinical trials.
He is currently the co-chair of the National Clinical Group for the Advanced Therapies Treatment Centre (ATTC) network.