Professor Esiri is Emeritus Professor of Neuropathology at Oxford University. She has a longstanding interest in inflammatory diseases of the nervous system, such as multiple sclerosis, and in dementia. Her recent dementia research has focused on trying to understand the significance of damage to the small blood vessels in the brain as the second most common cause of dementia after Alzheimer’s disease. She has also contributed many studies on the neuropathology of Alzheimer’s disease.
Professor Esiri has recently founded a charity in memory of her late husband. It is called the Frederick Foundation (charity no 1206278), and has two main aims. The first is to improve outcomes for people in Nigeria and other parts of Africa who suffer a stroke, starting at Ibadan, Nigeria. The second it to establish an academic link between the medical schools at Ibadan and Oxford to enable selected students to undertake their education about stroke and other clinical neuroscience on an exchange visit. St Hugh’s has generously hosted our first two exchange students from Ibadan.
For more information about Professor Esiri’s work, please see her departmental website.
