phd students

Aydan Askarova

Supervisor: Dr Alexi Nott

Project Title: Discovering Risk Genes and Pathways in Alzheimer’s Disease: Integrative Enhancer-to-Gene Interactome Mapping of the Cerebral Vasculature

Tatiana Georgiades

Project Title: Multi-‘omic Characterisation of Vulnerable Synaptic Components in Alzheimer’s Disease

Supervisors: Dr Johanna Jackson, Dr Samuel Barnes

phd students

Janna van Dalen

Project Title: Investigating the Epigenomic Changes in Vascular and Immune Cells of the Ageing Human Brain

Supervisors: Dr Alexi Nott, Dr David Owen

How temperature and circadian rhythms intersect to regulate a protein shown to protect against neurodegeneration

A new study led by Dr Marco Brancaccio (UK DRI at Imperial) and Dr Marieke Hoekstra (former UK DRI at Imperial, now VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain & Disease Research) offers a deeper insight into how a neuroprotective pathway is regulated both by temperature and the body clock. This research, published in the journal PNAS, could open up new therapeutic avenues for neurodegenerative disease. Read more on the UK DRI website

Introducing Cynthia Sandor: Pioneering earlier detection of Parkinson’s

Dr Cynthia Sandor, former Emerging Leader at the UK DRI at Cardiff, joins the UK DRI at Imperial as a Group Leader, where she will be tackling early diagnosis of Parkinson’s. 

With a background in genetics, Dr Sandor uses computational methods to bring greater understanding to the underlying molecular mechanisms of Parkinson’s. Read more about Cynthia's work on the UK DRI website.

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