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Meet Peter Crack
Professor Peter Crack is a neuropharmacologist and Head of the Neuropharmacology Research Group in the Department of Biochemistry and Pharmacology, School of Biomedical Sciences. His research focuses on understanding how neuroinflammation, oxidative stress and cell death contribute to neurological diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease and traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Together with his research group, Peter is specifically working to uncover how the brain’s inflammatory response can both protect and harm neural tissue, how acute and chronic neurological injuries trigger damaging biochemical pathways and how to stop this damage from progressing.
Advancing Treatments for Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury is a major global health challenge and affects millions of people worldwide each year.
Peter’s latest research project is centred on developing new therapeutics that target the molecular mechanisms driving harmful inflammation in the brain. One of their experimental compounds, now showing a promising profile in early trials, has the potential to reduce long‑term neurological damage after traumatic injury.
We are developing new medicines that calm harmful brain inflammation after traumatic brain injury. Our goal is to reduce ongoing brain damage and support recovery, not just treat the immediate injury.