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Matt Farrer, PhD - Scientific Advisory Board
Consultant/Associate Professor, Genetics of Parkinson's & Related Disorders
Department of Neuroscience
Mayo Clinic
Jacksonville, Florida

Matthew Farrer earned his PhD in 1995 from the St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, Imperial College, in London. From 1996-1997 he served as a Postdoctoral Fellow of Medical and Community Genetics at St. Marks NHS Trust in the United Kingdom. Dr. Farrer then moved to Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida to perform a senior postdoctoral fellowship from 1997-1999.

He is currently an Assistant Professor and a Senior Associate Consultant for the Department of Neuroscience at the Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, where his laboratory studies the genetics of parkinsonism and related movement disorders, exploring the clincogenetic and pathological correlates of disease. Areas of emphasis include linkage analysis within multigenerational pedigrees, linkage disequilibrium methods applied to American, European and Asian populations (homogeneous isolates and outbred, heterogeneous groups) and the molecular genetics of known genes/mutations. The laboratory is recognized as an NINDS Udall Center of Excellence for the genetics of Parkinson's disease.