Paediatric Neurologist / Clinical Trials Investigator / Lead for Gene Therapy
Dr Ian Woodcock is a paediatric neurologist at the Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne and an honorary fellow at the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. He completed his paediatric training including paediatric neurology terms at the Leeds Children’s Hospital in the United Kingdom before moving to Melbourne, Australia and completing a three and a half year fellowship training programme in paediatric neurology at the Royal Children’s Hospital. This fellowship included a double term as the neuromuscular fellow. Ian has extensive research interests within the field of paediatric neurology and in particular in neuromuscular disorders. Ian has experience as principle investigator in investigator initiated clinical trials including one in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy and another for young people with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD). Ian has extensive experience as an investigator in multiple large-scale international industry-sponsored drug trials, including breakthrough drug trials in Spinal Muscular Atrophy.
Selected Publications:
Finkel RS, Mercuri E, Darras BT, Connolly AM, Kuntz NL, Kirschner J, Chiriboga CA, Saito K, Servais L, Tizzano E, Topaloglu H, Tulinius M, Montes J, Glanzman AM, Bishop K, Zhong ZJ, Gheuens S, Bennett CF, Schneider E, Farwell W, De Vivo DC; ENDEAR Study Group. Bradley WG… Ryan M, Carroll KM, De Valle KL, Villano D, Woodcock I, Yiu EM… Zeng YS. Nusinersen versus Sham Control in Infantile-Onset Spinal Muscular Atrophy. N Engl J Med. 2017 Nov 2;377(18):1723-1732. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa1702752.
Butcher S, Smith M, Woodcock IR, Delatycki M, Ryan MM, Forbes R. False negative carrier screening in spinal muscular atrophy. Journal of Child Neurology. 2020;35(4):274-77
de Valle K, McGinley JL, Woodcock IR, Ryan MM, Dobson F. Measurement properties and utility of performance-based outcome measures of physical functioning in individuals with facioscapulohumeral dystrophy – a systematic review and evidence synthesis. Neuromuscular Disorders. 2019;29:881-94
Woodcock IR, Menezes MP, Coleman L, Yaplito-Lee J, Peters H, White SM, Stapleton R, Phelan DG, Chong B, Lunke S, Stark Z, Pitt J, Ryan MM, Robertson C, Yiu EM. Genetic, radiologic and clinical variability in Brown- Vialetto-van Laere Syndrome. Seminars in Pediatric Neurology. Available online 5 April 2017. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.spen.2017.03.001