People at the UK DRI at UCL

Professor Karen Duff

Centre Director

k.duff@ucl.ac.uk

The molecular causes and consequences of tauopathy in Alzheimer's Disease and Frontotemporal dementia

Team Members

Dr Tim Bartels

Group Leader

t.bartels@ucl.ac.uk

Structure-function relationship in neurodegeneration

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Dr Marc Aurel Busche

Group Leader

m.busche@ucl.ac.uk

Understanding and repairing pathological neural circuits in Alzheimer's disease

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Professor Bart De Strooper

Group Leader

b.strooper@ucl.ac.uk

Investigating the cellular reaction to amyloid beta and Tau

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Professor Nick Fox

Group Leader

n.fox@ucl.ac.uk

From Patient to Bench and Back: Clinical Resources, Accelerating Therapies

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Professor John Hardy

Group Leader

j.hardy@ucl.ac.uk

Analysis of neurodegeneration

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Dr Soyon Hong

Group Leader

soyon.hong@ucl.ac.uk

Immune mechanisms of synaptic function and pathology

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Professor Adrian Isaacs

Group Leader

a.isaacs@ucl.ac.uk

Frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease mechanisms

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Dr Julija Krupic 

Group Leader

j.krupic@ucl.ac.uk

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

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Professor Giampietro Schiavo 

Group Leader

giampietro.schiavo@ucl.ac.uk

Restoring axonal transport deficits as a therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative diseases

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Dr Aitana Sogorb-Esteve

Emerging Leader

a.sogorb-esteve@ucl.ac.uk

Exploring the utility of synaptic markers in frontotemporal dementia

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Professor Sarah Tabrizi

Group Leader

s.tabrizi@ucl.ac.uk

Mechanism of the DNA damage response in Huntington's disease pathogenesis and relevance for therapeutics

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Dr Philip Weston

Emerging Leader

philip.weston@ucl.ac.uk

Next-generation imaging biomarkers of cortical microstructure for measuring presymptomatic cortical degeneration in Alzheimer's disease and associations with molecular pathology

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Dr Frances Wiseman

Group Leader and UK DRI Programme Leader for Animal Models

f.wiseman@ucl.ac.uk

Mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease development in Down syndrome

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Professor Henrik Zetterberg

Group Leader

h.zetterberg@ucl.ac.uk

Fluid biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases

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Centre Manager

In recruitment

Acting - Amber Simpson - ukdri-admin@ucl.ac.uk

Centre Administrator

Amber Simpson - ukdri-admin@ucl.ac.uk

Lab Manager

Michael Sheridan - michael.sheridan@ucl.ac.uk

Deputy Lab Managers

Mireia Mato Prado - m.prado@ucl.ac.uk

Kevin Williams - kevin.williams@ucl.ac.uk

Executive Assistant to Centre Director

Samantha Henry - s.henry@ucl.ac.uk

Technician (Animals)

Phillip Muckett - p.muckett@ucl.ac.uk

Senior Reseach Scientist (Microscopy)

Nic Cade - n.cade@ucl.ac.uk

Data Infrastructure Manager

Eugeniu Dinu - e.dinu@ucl.ac.uk

Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Platform Manager

Daria Gavriouchkina - ukdri.scst@ucl.ac.uk

Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Platform Technician

Modesta Blunskyte - ukdri.scst@ucl.ac.uk

Fluid Biomarker Facility Co-ordinator

Elena Veleva - ukdri.biomarker.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk

Associate Members

Kenneth Harris, Professor of Quantative Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL

John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL

Co-Investigators

Fiona Ducotterd, Chief Scientific Officer, Alzheimer's Research UK UCL Drug Discovery Institute, Institute of Neurology, UCL

Pietro Fratta, Professor of Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL

Neil Ranson, Professor of Structural Molecular Biology, University of Leeds

Jonathan Rohrer, Professor of Neurology, Institute of Neurology, UCL

Benjamin Ryskeldi-Falcon, Group Leader, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge

Jonathan Schott, Professor of Neurology, Institute of Neurology, UCL

Selina Wray, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL