Dr. Philippa Warren leads a team of dedicated an pashionate scientists working to find treatments for traumatic brain and spinal cord injury. Philippa began here career working for Eli Lilly during her undergraduate degree reading Biology at Imperial College London. At Eli Lilly, Philippa worked as an in vivo electrophysiologist assessing the causes, and pharmaceutical treatments, of temporal lobe emilepsy. She started working on spinal cord and brain injury research in 2006 during her PhD in the University of Cambridge where she helped develop viral therapeutics for these devistating disorders. During her six years at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Leeds, Philippa gained additional expertise in respiratory and muscle physiology while focussing on the recovery of critical motor system function at chronic time points post injury. Time points generally considered to be the most difficult in which to recover funciton. Philippa formed her independent research group in King's College London in 2018. She was recently awarded a Sir Henry Dale Senior Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust and Royal Society. Since 2020 Philippa has been working with the King's Policy Institute and Royal Society to infulence aspects of science policy. She is an active member of the Young Academy of Europe, joining the board in 2023. They work as a team to advocate for Young and Early Career Researchers across the globe through National and International policy initiatives.