Bob was awarded his BSc (Hons) in 1982, and completed a PhD on nuclear magnetic resonance studies of energy transduction at Griffith University in 1986. After a postdoctoral fellowship and then an assitant professorship in the Neurology Department of the University of California at San Francisco, he accepted a Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship at James Cook University in 1988. He subsequently was appointed as a lecturer, and promoted to senior lecturer and then Associate Professor and Head of Department of Physiology and Pharmacology at James Cook University. In 2001, he joined the Department of Pathology at the University of Adelaide. His research has focussed on the recognition of secondary injury factors that are associated with the development of functional deficits following injury to the central nervous system, and the development of novel pharmacotherapies that improve outcome. He is particularly noted for his discovery and subsequent characterization of the role of magnesium in traumatic brain injury. More recently, Bob has been investigating the role of neuropeptides as secondary injury factors following traumatic brain injury. His work has resulted in a number of patents and two pharmacologic treatments that have recently been entered into clinical trials.

Some Recent Publications (Limited Medline)