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Group Leaders & Emerging Leaders

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

Karen Duff

Dr Tim Bartels

Group Leader

t.bartels@ucl.ac.uk

Structure-function relationship in neurodegeneration

Team Members

Tim Bartels

Dr Marc Aurel Busche

Group Leader

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

b.strooper@ucl.ac.uk

Investigating the cellular reaction to amyloid beta and Tau

Team Members

Bart De Strooper

Professor Nick Fox

Group Leader

n.fox@ucl.ac.uk

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

Team Members 

Nick Fox

Professor John Hardy

Group Leader

j.hardy@ucl.ac.uk

Analysis of neurodegeneration

Team Members

John Hardy

Dr Soyon Hong

Group Leader

soyon.hong@ucl.ac.uk

Immune mechanisms of synaptic function and pathology

Team Members

Soyon Hong

Professor Adrian Isaacs

Group Leader

a.isaacs@ucl.ac.uk

Frontotemporal dementia and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis disease mechanisms

Team Members

Adrian Isaacs

Dr Julija Krupic 

Group Leader

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

giampietro.schiavo@ucl.ac.uk

Restoring axonal transport deficits as a therapeutic strategy for neurodegenerative diseases

Team Members

Giampietro Schiavo

Dr Aitana Sogorb-Esteve

Emerging Leader

a.sogorb-esteve@ucl.ac.uk

Exploring the utility of synaptic markers in frontotemporal dementia

Team Members

Aitana

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

Team Members

Sarah Tabrizi

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

Team Members

philip_weston

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

Team Members

Frances Wiseman

Professor Henrik Zetterberg

Group Leader

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 Administrator

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 Associate Director of Informatics

Amonida Zadissa - a.zadissa@ucl.ac.uk

Single Cell and Spatial Transcriptomics Platform

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

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

Fluid Biomarker Facility Co-ordinator

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

Associate Members and Co-Investigators

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