Professor Dame Pamela Shaw

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Sep 6, 202652:10Society & Culture

Professor Dame Pamela Shaw is a pioneering Neurologists and a leading figure in tackling motor neurone disease or MND. She is the founder and Director of SITran – the World leading Sheffield Institute for Translational N...

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