[2] In 1985 she established the first neurogenetics research group in the United Kingdom at the UCL Institute of Neurology.
[4] In 1988 Harding played an instrumental role in the establishment of the European Neurological Society.
[4] She died of colorectal cancer, 6 days before her 43rd birthday and shortly before she was to take up the chair in Clinical Neurology at the UCLIN.
Her major achievements were: She also worked extensively on the population genetics of disorders with ethnic distribution.
[2] Together with Dr. Mary Davis, Anita Harding established one of the biggest service labs for molecular analysis of neurogenetic disorders in the UK.