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Group Leaders & Emerging Leaders

Professor Karen Duff

Centre Director (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

k.duff@ucl.ac.uk

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

Team Members

Karen Duff

Professor David Attwell

Centre Director (BHF-UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research)

d.attwelll@ucl.ac.uk

Alleviating the fall of energy supply to the brain in both Alzheimer's disease and vascular dementia

Team Members

     
David Attwell

Dr Tim Bartels

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

t.bartels@ucl.ac.uk

Structure-function relationship in neurodegeneration

Team Members

Tim Bartels

Dr Marc Aurel Busche

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

m.busche@ucl.ac.uk

Understanding and repairing pathological neural circuits in Alzheimer's disease

Team Members

Marc Aurel Busche

Professor Bart De Strooper

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

b.strooper@ucl.ac.uk

Investigating the cellular reaction to amyloid beta and Tau

Team Members

Bart De Strooper

Professor Nick Fox

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

n.fox@ucl.ac.uk

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

Team Members 

Nick Fox

Professor Catherine Hall

Group Leader (BHF-UK DRI Centre for Vascular Dementia Research)

catherine.hall@ucl.ac.uk

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Professor John Hardy

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

j.hardy@ucl.ac.uk

Analysis of neurodegeneration

Team Members

John Hardy

Dr Soyon Hong

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

soyon.hong@ucl.ac.uk

Immune mechanisms of synaptic function and pathology

Team Members

Soyon Hong

Professor Adrian Isaacs

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

a.isaacs@ucl.ac.uk

Frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease mechanisms

Team Members

Adrian Isaacs

Dr Julija Krupic 

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

j.krupic@ucl.ac.uk

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

Team Members

julija krupic

Professor Giampietro Schiavo 

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

giampietro.schiavo@ucl.ac.uk

Restoring axonal transport deficits as a therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative diseases

Team Members

Giampietro Schiavo

Professor Jonathan Schott

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

j.schott@ucl.ac.uk

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

                      
Professor Jonathan Schott

Dr Aitana Sogorb-Esteve

Emerging Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

a.sogorb-esteve@ucl.ac.uk

Exploring the utility of synaptic markers in frontotemporal dementia

Team Members

Aitana

Professor Sarah Tabrizi

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

s.tabrizi@ucl.ac.uk

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

Team Members

Sarah Tabrizi

Dr Philip Weston

Emerging Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

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

Team Members

philip_weston

Dr Frances Wiseman

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

f.wiseman@ucl.ac.uk

Mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease development in Down syndrome

Team Members

Frances Wiseman

Professor Henrik Zetterberg

Group Leader (UK Dementia Research Institute at UCL)

h.zetterberg@ucl.ac.uk

Fluid biomarkers for neurodegenerative diseases

Team Members

Henrik Zetterberg

Centre Support Staff

Centre Manager

Charlotte Grady - ukdri-admin@ucl.ac.uk

Centre Research Administrators

Chloe Skillan - ukdri-admin@ucl.ac.uk
Jessica Tingle - ukdri-admin@ucl.ac.uk

Lab Manager

Mireia Mato Prado - m.prado@ucl.ac.uk

Deputy Lab Manager

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

UK DRI Core Informatics

Associate Director of Informatics - Amonida Zadissa - a.zadissa@ucl.ac.uk

UK DRI Single Cells and Spatial Omics Facility

Manager - Daria Gavriouchkina - ukdri.scst@ucl.ac.uk
Technician - Modesta Blunskyte - ukdri.scst@ucl.ac.uk

UK DRI Biomarker Factory 

Biomarker Factory Facility Co-ordinator - Barbara Fernandes Gomes - ukdri.biomarker.enquiries@ucl.ac.uk 

Associate Members and Co-Investigators

Affiliate Members

  • Fiona Ducotterd, Chief Scientific Officer, Alzheimer's Research UK UCL Drug Discovery Institute, Institute of Neurology, UCL
  • Kenneth Harris, Professor of Quantative Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL
  • John O'Keefe, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience, Sainsbury Wellcome Centre, UCL
  • Selina Wray, Professor of Molecular Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, UCL

Co-Investigators

  • 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