Background
Raisman, Geoffrey was born on June 28, 1939 in Leeds, United Kingdom.
Raisman, Geoffrey was born on June 28, 1939 in Leeds, United Kingdom.
Bachelor of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 1964; Doctor of Philosophy, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 1965; Doctor of Medicine, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, 1974.
His father was a Jewish man who was originally from Lithuania. Raisman is not religious. He attended Roundhay Grammar School and Pembroke College, Oxford.
He is chair of neural regeneration at University College London's Institute of Neurology. In 2014, his team claimed to have regrown nerve cells where they had been severed, restoring the damaged spinal cord of the Polish paraplegic Darek Fidyka.
Royal Society.