Adrian Parry-Jones is a Consultant Vascular Neurologist at the Manchester Centre for Clinical Neurosciences, Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and holds a Stroke Association Margaret Giffen Reader Award.

Adrian trained in Medicine at the University of Manchester and was awarded an MRC Clinical Research Training Fellowship (2003-06) to undertake his PhD. Alongside his clinical training in Neurology and Stroke Medicine, he continued to develop his research interests as an NIHR Clinical Lecturer (2009-14). He has been a Consultant Neurologist since 2014 and held an NIHR Clinician Scientist Award from 2015-20. He is currently supported by a Stroke Association Margaret Giffen Reader Award (2020-24) to pursue a programme of  research aimed at improving outcomes for those affected by intracerebral haemorrhage.

Adrian's research is focused on improving outcomes after intracerebral haemorrhage, a devastating form of stroke with poor outcomes and few treatments. His NIHR award funded an early phase, multicentre observational study embedded in the MISTIE III trial of minimally invasive surgery, a  multiparametric PET/MR imaging study and a clinical trial, all aimed at understanding the therapeutic potential of modulating the inflammatory response to intracerebral haemorrhage.

He also leads a programme of work combining implementation science and health informatics to improve patient outcomes after stroke, with work focused on improving outcomes after intracerebral haemorrhage by ensuring optimal delivery of standard care and improving pre-hopsital recognition of stroke. 

Collaborators and affiliated staff (Manchester):

• Mr H Patel: Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust
• Prof Stuart Allan, Dr Paul Kasher: Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester
• Dr Laura Parkes, Dr Rainer Hinz: Imaging Sciences, University of Manchester
• Prof Niels Peek, Dr Camilla Sammut-Powell: Greater Manchester NIHR ARC

External collaborators:

• Prof Dan Hanley, Assoc Prof Wendy Ziai, W Andrew Mould: Johns Hopkins Medical Centre, Baltimore, USA
• Assoc Prof Lauren Sansing, Yale School of Medicine, USA
• Prof Karin Klijn, Dr Floris Schreuder: Radboud Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
• Prof Rustam Al-Shahi Salman: University of Edinburgh
• Prof David Werring: UCL, London

• Preclinical models of intracerebral haemorrhage
• Magnetic resonance imaging (preclinical and clinical)
• Positron emission tomography
• Observational clinical research and clinical trials

BSc (Hons) in Neuroscience, 1st class, University of Manchester (1995)

MBChB (Hons), University of Manchester (1998)

MRCP (UK), London, (2001)

PhD, University of Manchester (2007)

HEA Fellow (2013)