Dr Rahul Shah graduated with honours from Leicester Medical School in 2010 and joins the unit from Southampton General Hospital where he is an Academic Foundation Doctor in Neurosurgery. During his medical degree he intercalated a BSc in the Neural Plasticity Lab under Robert Pawlak, and undertook electives at the University of Cape Town and Mayo Clinic Rochester.
Rahul is undertaking a 4-month research rotation in the Magill group supervised by Dr Andrew Sharott, utilising in vivo electrophysiology to investigate properties of novel fast-spiking interneurons in the dorsolateral striatum.