People

Our Group Leaders, Emerging Leaders, Lab Members, Professional Services Team and Affiliate Members are listed below:

Karen Duff
Professor Karen Duff

Centre Director

Revealing the molecular causes and consequence of tauopathy in Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal dementia

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Dr Tim Bartels

Group Leader

Untangling protein structure to better understand function and treat neurodegeneration

Dr Marc Busche
Dr Marc Busche

Group Leader

Understanding and repairing pathological neural circuits in Alzheimer's disease

Professor Bart De Strooper
Professor Bart De Strooper

Group Leader

Investigating the cellular reaction to amyloid beta and tau protein in Alzheimer's disease

Professor Nick Fox
Professor Nick Fox

Group Leader

Accelerating the development of effective therapies to make a difference to people living with dementia

John Hardy
Professor Sir John Hardy

Group Leader

Harnessing genetics to build a better understanding of dementia

Dr Soyon Hong
Dr Soyon Hong

Group Leader

Dissecting pathways by which microglia contribute to region-specific synapse dysfunction in neurodegeneration

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Professor Adrian Isaacs

Group Leader

Deciphering the fundamental molecular causes of frontotemporal dementia and ALS

Dr Julija Krupic
Dr Julija Krupic

Group Leader

Understanding early changes in neuron-glia circuits in Alzheimer’s disease

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Professor Giampietro Schiavo

Group Leader

Restoring axonal transport deficits as a therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative diseases

jonathan schott
Professor Jonathan Schott

Group Leader

Clinical academic specialising in dementia, with a focus on early accurate diagnosis, detection of pre-symptomatic Alzheimer’s disease, and promoting healthy cognitive ageing

sarah tabrizi
Professor Sarah Tabrizi

Group Leader

Modulating DNA repair and repeat instability for treating Huntington’s disease and related disorders

Dr Philip Weston
Dr Philip Weston

Emerging Leader

Using advanced forms of MRI and PET brain scanning to identify and track the earliest signs of brain cell loss

Dr Frances Wiseman
Dr Frances Wiseman

Group Leader

Investigating dementia in people living with Down syndrome

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Professor Henrik Zetterberg

Group Leader and Co-Lead, UK DRI Fluid Biomarker Factory Platform

Pioneering the development of fluid biomarkers for dementia

david atwell
Professor David Attwell

Centre Director

Investigating how the brain's energy supply is reduce by a decrease of blood flow in both Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

Professor Catherine Hall
Professor Catherine Hall

Group Leader

Understanding how changes in blood flow drive onset of disease

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Dr Amanda Heslegrave

Co-Lead, UK DRI Biomarker Factory Platform and Principal Research Fellow

Enquiries to: ukdri.biomarker.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk

Amonida Zadissa
Dr Amonida Zadissa

Associate Director of Informatics

Single Cells & Spatial Omics Facility platform
Dr Daria Gavriouchkina

Platform Manager, UK DRI Single Cell and Spatial Omics Platform

Enquiries to: ukdri.scst@ucl.ac.uk