Professor Sarah Tabrizi receives the 2023 Arvid Carlsson Award

The Lund University Arvid Carlsson Award was presented to Professor Tabrizi for her research in advancing our understanding of disease mechanisms in Huntington’s disease. The prize presentation followed her giving the Arvid Carlsson Award Lecture at the inaugural Lund Spring Symposium in Sweden.

The Award is named after the Nobel Prize winning pharmacologist Arvid Carlsson famed for his discovery of the role of dopamine in the CNS and its treatment of Parkinson’s disease. The award recognises inspirational and transforming research that is providing the basis for numerous therapeutic applications.

Professor Tabrizi’s award lecture was titled ‘New genetic therapies for neurodegenerative disease’ and focussed on potential treatments for Huntington’s disease and other neurodegenerative disorders. The symposium programme, titled ‘Novel Therapeutic Modalities for the 21st Century,’ focussed on state-of-the-art research centred around molecular therapeutics ranging from basic research to clinical applications.

Prof Tabrizi’s research programme at the Huntington’s Disease Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology, and the UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL, seeks to discover effective disease-modifying treatments that prevent or reverse the neurodegenerative process in Huntington’s disease. She leads a large research group that follows two distinct but complementary approaches: basic science focusing on cellular mechanisms of neurodegeneration, and a programme to translate those findings into treatments that prevent or reverse the neurodegenerative process in Huntington’s disease.

Professor Michael Hanna, Director of the UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology said: ‘I am delighted to see Sarah recognised for her pioneering research to advance therapies for this devastating disease, and her continued dedication to her mission to find a treatment underpins everything that we think is important in translational neuroscience here at the Institute of Neurology’

Links

• Professor Sarah Tabrizi's academic profile
• Huntington’s Disease Centre, UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology

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Left to right: Professor Ulrik Gether (University of Copenhagen), Professor Åsa Petersen (Lund University), Professor Sarah Tabrizi

Credit: Kristian Waldeck, Ph.D.